In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

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LOS ANGELES -- The 1982 hit "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was named the greatest hip hop song of all time Wednesday, in the first such list by Rolling Stone magazine to ...

Grab your Walkman headphones and steer that Delorean straight for the golden age of hip-hop, metal, and indie rock.

Fifty years after it was created in New York City’s Bronx borough, hip hop is a multi-billion dollar industry that doubles as a powerful political tool for Black Americans. The music for a ...

Facts: Atlanta has far more than 50 great hip-hop songs. Creating a list of just 50 tracks from the origins of Atlanta rap to the hip-hop dominance our city enjoys today, was no easy task. The sheer ...

“DOOM … is this really you?” an interviewer asked the late rapper and producer in 2012. “Yeah,” he replied with a laugh. “Kinda … DOOM is a character ...