Nostalgia — that seemingly endless pool of artistic inspiration — motivates at least half (by my less-than-scientific calculation) of this year’s major pop culture moments, from Netflix’s Stranger ...

The Congressional Black Caucus is an essential organization that has deep roots in Black America, like Hip-Hop. Dr. Nola Haynes explains why it all matters. Dr. Nola Haynes examines “From Vision to ...

Forty years after its birth, hip-hop is everywhere, a global signifier of youthfulness and subversion and opulence and Americanness and blackness and menace, sometimes all at once. But for all the ...

LL Cool J, a pioneering figure in hip-hop, is set to take viewers on a captivating journey through the genre’s roots with the new docuseries Hip Hop Was Born Here. This five-part series, co-created ...

While hip-hop celebrates 50 years of life, The Associated Press asked some of the genre's most popular artists to recall their first memory of hearing rap and how the moment resonated with ...

"I realized I had the lost Dead Sea Scrolls of hip-hop photography," says Joe Conzo, who captured this moment in the culture's primordial days. As hip-hop was first blooming, with small steps, into ...

Hip-hop history is coming home to Wilmington. This spring, hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native Sharon Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock — she's considered to be the first female rapper — will be honored ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In 1983, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels changed the music industry. As one–third of the hip-hop act Run-DMC, the Queens native was a part ...

At various points in my previous articles, I have at least pointed to the fact that I, having been born in the 2000s, had to learn about hip-hop out of order, at least compared to those who had been ...