This year is widely celebrated as the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, reflecting a symbolic starting point – an Aug. 11, 1973 Bronx dance party organized by Cindy Campbell and DJ’d by her brother, Clive ...

Hip hop/rap is a culture that changed the world, a culture created and perfected by Black and brown Americans.

For five decades, hip-hop has redefined the soundscape of American music and created a billion-dollar industry in its wake. Hip-hop as we know it has evolved way past its humble beginnings in the ...

Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit” curated by the GRAMMY Museum® delves deep into the multifaceted world of the genre through its music, dance, graffiti, fashion, business, activism and history, ...

Howard professor Gilbert Newman Perkins, in a piece at the Washington Post, tackles America’s foundering perceptions about hip-hop, arguing that it’s largely pundits who know nothing about the art — ...

The GRAMMY Museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with the new 5,000-square-foot exhibition Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit. The exhibit explores the origins of hip-hop music, dance, ...

When I was twelve-years-old, the championship for my favorite song and video belonged to one-hit rap wonder Kwame's song "Ownlee Eue." The guy had style, could rap and also had some of the illest ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...

Blacks in America gave birth to the thumping beats and verbal bluster that have become hip-hop, but a white rapper, Eminem, is the reigning hip-hop king. He even won an Oscar Sunday night for a song ...