We're continuing our celebration of Black History Month by highlighting Hip Hop's Unsung Heroes who helped shape the culture without always receiving credit by mainstream audiences. Hip hop didn’t ...

At a party in The Bronx on August 11, 1973, hip hop was born. That was when Cindy Campbell, a school kid from The Bronx, threw a party to raise some money to buy new clothes. Her brother Clive – aka ...

Coming off the success of their previous releases, Cypress Hill used IV to push deeper into darker, more aggressive territory ...

Perhaps not surprisingly, Will Smith thinks the best time for modern rap music was around the same time he and Jazzy Jeff broke through.

Jay-Z's spectacular Bronx homecoming shattered rap concert benchmarks as nearly 137,000 attendees fueled an unprecedented ...

The event will feature an MC battle, drumline and dance performances, live DJs and panel discussions with graffiti pioneer Darryl “Cornbread” McCray and Public Enemy co-founder Chuck D.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. JOSH LANGMAN, REPORTER: The year: 1973. The location: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, The Bronx. The Event: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The civil rights laws and the assassinations that happened in 1968 lays the foundation for the desire for something new, ...

Questlove’s (Amir Thompson) newest (the eighth!) book, Hip-Hop Is History, with co-author Ben Greenman, is like a window looking deep into the workings of a pretty special hip-hop mind. Questlove is a ...

At this point, Questlove has so many jobs, it’s not only hard to keep track of them all but one also wonders when exactly he has the time to do so many things without the assistance of a secret twin, ...

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