Hip Hop

OHHLA has an enormous list of hip-hop lyrics freely available to the public. Try it.... it's highly addictive.

The African Hip Hop Project works to further the efforts of several African Hip Hop artists who use the tools of popular culture to empower African youth.

Great, thoughtful reviews & commentary

Good source for bios

Sohh.com

"Mark Anthony Neal is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. A frequent commentator for National Public Radio Neal also contributes to several on-line media outlets, including SeeingBlack.com, The Root.com and theGrio.com." ~blog description

Meditations on Culture, Politics, Sports, and the Game of Life from a Uniquely Notorious Perspective.