William King on hip-hop’s rise, how the Commodores got their name, and what drove Lionel Richie’s departure.

J.C. Hall, who found solace in hip hop during his own struggles with addiction and depression, founded Hip Hop Therapy Studio ...

Discover how urban culture drives modern digital entertainment trends. From the iconic tech link of Mark Zuckerberg and ...

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 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 ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

I can’t believe you’re 50. Five decades of moving the crowd — starting with DJ Kool Herc’s house parties at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx back in ’73 — and look at you now … not a single wrinkle.

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list. If you ...

In the summer of 1973, block parties were taking over New York’s Bronx borough as Black and brown youth were coming together to celebrate culture, community and a new genre of music: hip-hop. Born as ...

The Air Jordan 4 "Musik" channels the flash and style of early-2000s hip-hop with metallic gold accents, premium materials, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Indiana Fever are searching for the next members of the Fever Inferno Hip-Hop Squad. The team is hosting auditions at ...