The Colorlines team is sharing our favorite 2018 videos, books, hashtags, movies and more. Here, contributing writer Shani Saxon dives into why Meek Mill’s “Championships” was the year’s best album.

Famous friends of the renowned DJ—including Rosie Pérez, Questlove and Lin-Manuel Miranda—examine Garcia’s decades-long dedication to hip hop in his new documentary.

Forty-four years have passed since DJ Kool Herc first looped instrumental breaks for an enthusastic crowd of Black and Latinx Bronx residents. Google celebrates the creation of hip-hop with a Doodle that lets you mix your own breaks on virtual turntables.

New episodes of the musical series about hip-hop’s birth in the South Bronx debut on the streaming service on April 7.

The new series takes inspiration from Dan Charnas’ book, “The Big Payback,” and focuses on three friends navigating the early ’90s hip-hop business.

The tennis great and MC dive deep for nearly an hour in ESPN’s “The Undefeated In-Depth: Serena With Common.”

“Black Frankenstein of horror, like Black man with all-White jurors. They tried to take my power, instead they made a monster.”

Director Omar Akil is running a Kickstarter campaign to complete his star-studded documentary about the iconic hip-hop collective.

Made up of former-Das Racist member Himanshu “Heems” Suri, actor/rapper Riz “Riz MC” Ahmed and producer Tom “Redinho” Calvert, the Swet Shop Boys explore the everyday struggles of South Asian and other Brown people moving through a world full of racial profiling and dangerous stereotypes. 

VICE’s new music issue features in-depth accounts from three of the men who accused the hip-hop pioneer of sexual assault. 

The third season of the family comedy premiered this week. Here, Melvin Mar talks about making history with the first Asian-American show in 20 years and the long game he played to get it on the small screen. 

The multihyphenate’s surrealist FX show premieres on September 6.

Baz Luhrmann’s musical series on hip-hop’s birth will debut on August 12.

“VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail The Queens” featured performances from Queen Latifah, Lil Kim and Eve.

On her funky second album, “Black Terry Cat,” the genre-bender explores identity, police violence and the hidden labor of Latino/a restaurant workers.

“I just wanted to make ‘Twin Peaks’ with rappers,” Glover said of his upcoming FX show.

Actual Fact uses the Rap Research Lab’s “Hiphop Word Count” database to encourage scholarship and research on hip-hop data and society.

What’s your favorite reason? 

The show will air July 11 at 9 p.m. ET.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical received nominations in every major category.