Collaboration is at the heart of some of the best music, and rap cyphers have long been a way for artists to exchange ideas. On episode 4 of The Rap Game UK, the artists have to do just that. Krept, ...

The night of the BET Hip-Hop Awards is the closest thing hip-hop has to a cultural holiday, in large part, because of the freestyle “Cyphers” scattered throughout the evening. The Cyphers are modeled ...

Hip-hop lends itself to collaboration more than any other genre. You’re not likely to find a rock, pop or country song with four lead singers from different bands, a scenario commonplace in rap music.

Alldreianna Braggs prefers to perform in places with "no negativity and no drama." Braggs, whose rap name is Yung Shotta, found such a venue Saturday at the second annual Cypher City Hip-Hop Festival, ...

Denver MC Matthew Jones, aka BROTH3R, hosts Hush, a freestyle rap night held at Mutiny Information Cafe the third Friday of each month — one of the few regular underground hip-hop events in the Mile ...

Some of battle rap’s nicest writers penned and voiced bars for LeBron, KD, Butler, Embiid and Jokić in the NBA superstars battle rap cypher. The worlds of Hip-Hop and basketball have collided in a new ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s around 9:00 on a Tuesday evening in East Quad’s Abeng Multicultural Lounge. A few students ...

If you turn “Cypher” off after 10 minutes, you’d probably walk away thinking it’s yet another music documentary about a rising star looking to buy some prestige with a slickly produced, feature-length ...