Dr. Dre Dropped His Debut Solo LP 'The Chronic' 33 Years Ago Dr. Dre Dropped His Debut 'The Chronic' 33 Years Ago ...

Common Released His Fifth LP 'Electric Circus' 23 Years Ago Common Released His 'Electric Circus' 23 Years Ago ...

Back in 2021, Questlove wrote Music Is History, an encyclopedia of sorts of significant moments in music for every year since his birth. Now, with 50th anniversary celebrations for hip-hop going on, ...

There is no debate that Queens’ own Nicki Minaj completely modernized rap with her versatility and bold lyricism. Born in ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Hip-hop transcends far beyond the music. "One person did not create this culture. It's three. Herc, Bam, and myself," said Grandmaster Flash, the founding father of Hip-hop. Joseph ...

Though Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson has spent this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop by curating a Grammy Awards tribute and stacking the Roots Picnic lineup with beloved artists from the ...

As Hip Hop celebrates its 50 years of influence on music and culture, UMass Boston gives us local context with the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, housed in the Joseph P. Healy Library at UMass. The ...

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, ...

BRONX, New York -- It was 50 years ago in an apartment building in the Bronx, about a mile and a half north of Yankee Stadium that hip hop was born. That is where Clive Campbell, better known as DJ ...

Thembisa S. Mshaka debuted the photo exhibition to honor the Black women whose creativity defined a global beauty language.

HISTORY. AUGUST 11TH, 1973, JAMAICAN BORN DJ KOOL HERC PERFORMED AT A PARTY IN THE BRONX, NEW YORK, USING TWO TURNTABLES, HE LOOPED MUSICAL BREAKS IN REAL TIME, CREATING MORE SPACE FOR PARTY GOERS TO ...