“Cipher” refers to either a code—a language known only by adepts, impenetrable to outsiders—or the figure zero. “Cypher,” meanwhile, refers to both a code and a circular shape. The difference is that ...

It might be 95 degrees on this sultry summer evening in East Point, but here in the CreateATL outdoor space, much of the heat the crowd is feeling comes from the rapid-fire lyrical craftsmanship that ...

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 ...

Kendrick Lamar is a man of the people. The world knows that his powerful track "Alright" has become an anthem for protesting injustice in the world. He's also a bastion for what hip-hop at its best ...

This can be said about a lot of things, but this might be the worst thing ever made and released in the history of the internet. On Monday, Clemson’s athletic department decided to tune in with the ...

There are a few essentials that make a cypher complete. Nas informed the masses it was suede Timbs on his 1994 hit "The World Is Yours." Ab-Soul and Sauce Walka took a page from the Queens rapper's ...

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 ...

The first sentence in the description for Tuesday night’s Undergraduate Government of Boston College event, “The Pursuit of Happiness: Mental Health in Hip Hop,” was a question: “Have you ever heard a ...

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 ...

Kevin Hart’s “Chocolate Droppa” alter ego returned for Kai Cenat’s annual AMP House freestyle cypher. On Sunday (July 28), Hart took to Instagram with an image of himself posing with the content ...