Hip-Hop didn’t pull its style, swag and samples from thin air. Like highwater slacks to younger siblings, they were passed down from an elder generation as a bundle of knowledge. Baby boomers of their ...

Since 1973, hip-hop has been a megaphone for Black men. The mental health struggles, sexual awakenings, and aging revelations have been shared worldwide in its lyrics and advocacy. To celebrate ...

Independent label entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, whose career spanned the worlds of ’50s R&B and first-generation ’70s rap, died Jan. 7 in New York. He was 93, according to a blog post by Dan Charnas, ...

Within the continuous additions to and retellings of music history, a genre such as hip-hop is usually caught within efforts to categorize and explain its origins, which happened largely outside of ...

As a teenager Grandmaster Flash began pioneering the turntable-as-instrument, playing the now iconic Bronx block parties that gave birth to hip-hop and revolutionized music. On Friday, he was back ...

Starting in the late ’70s, hip-hop and rap ascended through popular culture, mostly in America but also in other countries. Then, in 1990, a breakthrough. Hip-hop and rap tracks began infiltrating the ...