Journal of Hip Hop Studies
The Journal of Hip Hop Studies (JHHS) is committed to publishing critically engaged, culturally relevant, rigorously researched, and astute analyses of Hip Hop.
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Current Issue: Volume 10, Issue 1 (2023) 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Edition
From House Party to World Dominance: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop: A Bibliography
Cassandra Chaney
Hip Hop at 50: Reflections from Our Students
Dana Horton, Lavar Pope, and Travis Harris
From Page to Stage to Lyrics Database to Page: BreakBeat Poets, Lyrics Databases, and the Textual Capacity of Hip Hop Verse
Victorio Reyes Asili
“Ain’t Nuthin Wrong with Being a Trojan Man”: Discourse on Safe-Sex in Rap Music, 1985-1995
Christopher D. Rounds and Kareem R. Muhammad
Review: We Were Hyphy
Lavar Pope
The Spatio-Temporality of J Dilla’s Sound Aesthetic
Masahide T. Kato
Book Review for Renegade Rhymes
Meng Ren