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 ...

‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ (SIMBI) is the fourth studio album released by the phenomenal 29-year-old London-born rapper, Little Simz. While firmly rooted in hip-hop, this project weaves together ...

LGBTQ hip-hop is here and proudly queer — and it’s been here all along. And rap princess Ice Spice is melting down heteronormativity with her red-hot success. The rapper gave a breezy shoutout to her ...

We polled 106 critics from 13 countries across six continents to find out the best hip-hop song – here are their picks of songs from outside the US The global growth of hip-hop is best measured in ...

Hip-hop was born at a party in 1973, but it'd be another six years until the first commercial hip-hop records. People have differing views of it, but the release of "Rapper's Delight" changed history.

Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture; Aya de Leon, a writer, performer and instructor at the University of California, Berkeley; ...

We’re celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary this week. Wesley Morris traces the art form from its South Bronx origins to all-encompassing triumph. By Wesley Morris We’ve gathered here today to raise ...

Before the genre was called "hip-hop," MC Sha-Rock changed the game. The roots of hip-hop can be traced back to the night of Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell hosted a ...

Drunken Tiger, the godfathers of Korean hip-hop, recently announced that their latest album would their last one. Drunken Tiger — which debuted as a duo of Tiger JK and DJ Shine in 1998 and operated ...

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...