Hip Hop

• YouTube issues grants to 28 global hip-hop artists as part of Fifty Deep campaign
• YouTube selects 2,000 music videos from its “archival treasury” to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop

  YouTube is celebrating 50 years of hip hop by creating a 2,000-video archive that will highlight music videos "from Ice-T to Ice Spice."

  
• Viral Aggregator ‘WorldStarHipHop’ Links Up With Studio71 For Snapchat Channel

  Beginning today, WSHH will release between and five and 15 Snapchat clips every weekday at 6 am ET, including hip hop news, memes, viral videos repurposed from its user-generated trove, and other interactive formats.

  
• Once A “Girl-Pandering” YouTuber, Joey Gatto Looks To Reinvent Himself With Thoughtful Hip-Hop

  Joey Gatto, who gained notability on YouTube through the group Settle Down Kids (SDK), is now reinventing himself through hip-hop.

  
• GZA And THNKR Team Up To Preach Science To The Inner City
• ‘Beat Making Lab’ Channel Mixes Nonprofits, Travel, PBS and Phat Beats
• Happy Birthday To Jay-Z And His YouTube-Released Documentary
• CW Releases Music Video To Tease Upcoming ‘Stupid Hype’ Web Series
• New Show With Celeb Jeweler Ben Baller Explores Life Of A Bling Maker
• Kanye West and Jay-Z Followed by a VoyR
• Lil Wayne Talks Sports, Green Bay Packers on New Web Series
• Darth Vader vs. Hitler Rematch: Epic Rap Battles of History Returns