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 ...

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, ...

The most important rule of One Hundred, a monthly freestyle rap event organized by local nonprofit Soul Food Cypher, is to show courtesy. Cursing is strongly discouraged—unless it is to prove a larger ...

Hosted by Your Move MKE, this Mitchell Street hangout backed by beats gives young people a place to learn new skills.

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 ...

People watching their performance can claim that they wanted to show off their own very best individual skill set for the culture and spirit of hip hop. From Left to Right: Yardy Léxandros, ...

It’s that time of the year again: The BET Hip-Hop Awards are back, and with them, the highly-anticipated Cyphers. The Cyphers have been a highlight of the show for some years, with previous editions ...

Erykah Badu was a surprise guest rapper at the end of one of the cyphers on the BET Hip-Hop Awards last night. After freestyles from Bri Steves, Neelam Hakeem, Sharaya J, and Chika, the neo-soul ...

The 15th annual event, broadcast on Tuesday night, was notably different from past productions amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the cyphers remained a signature part of the night. Other women ...

In an interview with Newsweek, director Letia Solomon talks about the themes of self-identity and sexuality within her short film, The Cypher, which had its online premiere at the recent Tribeca Film ...