The Journal of Hip Hop Studies (JHHS) is committed to publishing critically engaged, culturally relevant, rigorously researched, and astute analyses of Hip Hop.

We prioritize scholarship that emerges from within Hip Hop’s own epistemologies, aesthetics, and lived practices. While lyrical analysis has its place, we are not interested in submissions that reduce Hip Hop to textual critique alone. Instead, we seek work that honors the full spectrum of Hip Hop knowledge production—rooted in beat-making, emceeing, DJing, breaking, fashion, performance, community-building, and archival work. We aim to uplift scholar-practitioners whose work theorizes with Hip Hop, not just about it. This includes experimental, multimedia, and practice-based forms of scholarship that reflect the culture’s insurgent creativity and radical politics.

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