The U.S. Army Has Hired Its First Hip-Hop Artist to Reach Younger Audiences

Staff Sgt. Lamar Riddick made history as the U.S. Army's first hip-hop artist, breaking barriers and opening doors for a new ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Hip-hop history: A timeline of key events in the music’s early decades

Numerous books have been written about the origins of hip-hop and its evolution from an underground phenomenon to a global force. While its growth since the 1990s had been well-documented, here are ...
Newsweek

The 50 Moments That Defined Hip-Hop, in Photos

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It was 1979 when The Sugar Hill Gang released "Rapper's Delight," a ...
AOL

The Top 50 Hip-Hop Singles Of The 1980s

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...
Los Angeles Times

The 50 greatest moments in hip-hop history

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

How Punk, Hip-Hop, and Craft Beer Share the Spirit of ’76

How punk, hip-hop, and the craft beer movement were all born out of rebellious DIY culture and began to flourish in America ...
People

Queen Latifah, Foxy Brown and Nicki Minaj Grace the Pages of a New Book About the Women Who Changed Hip-Hop Forever

'First Things First,' a new book from writer Nadirah Simmons, explores the often forgotten histories of hip-hop's most impactful women Raymond Colon, Hachette Book Group Lifelong hip-hop fan Nadirah ...