Hip Hop Beauty was created by author Thembisa S. Mshaka and celebrity makeup stylist to showcase Black women's impact on ...

New campaign "The Living Tracklist” seeks to establish a canon for the genre and employs packaging, social content and a ...

Explore how hip-hop artists, athletes, and gaming culture turned game nights into a powerful platform for fan engagement, ...

On June 18, Metro Nashville Police put out a statement on social media confirming his passing. Keith, born Brytavious ...

The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap tracks the evolution of the genre from its music to its culture and to its people. "Everything that is part of hip-hop," says the Smithsonian's Dwandalyn ...

Rap music often revolves around the artist, who gets the accolades, adoration and top billing. But at one time, there was a clear understanding in hip-hop that the DJ was at the top of the food chain.

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...

The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...

When hip-hop first started in 1973 at a party thrown by Clive Campbell, also known as DJ Kool Herc, it might have sounded different from the hip-hop we know today, but much of the groundwork has ...

In case you hadn’t heard, hip-hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this week. It started as a niche movement in New York in the early 1970s, and now, it is the world’s biggest genre of music and ...

The fatal shooting of rapper Half Ounce has ignited a familiar conversation about gun violence, rap culture and whether there’s a responsibility for record labels to protect their artists. Limited ...