Toronto/New York artist Black Power Barbie, also known as Amika Cooper ... around their playlists with three illustrations. For Hip-Hop’s 50 Anniversary, she drew inspiration from her Brooklyn ...

Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Today that party is considered by many "the birth of hip-hop ... but he's 68 years old now, and he called ...

The third in a series of Retropolis stories looking back at moments in hip-hop ... School Jam” would flop unless she found a musical act that she could afford. It’s why she turned to her 18 ...

“I take them back to old school hip-hop,” he said. “I take them back to that time when hip-hop was very special and I have the crowd stand up with their hands in the air screaming.

For reasons unknown to me, my 14-year-old ... of hip-hop explored in new Smithsonian box set For several months, my son has heard, read, and been told by his equally oblivious high school friends ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a landmark achievement for Black artists and creatives that have helped develop the most popular genre in the contemporary U.S. While the artists ...

To that end, Ohio State University's School of Music is unveiling its own hip-hop studies program in collaboration ... I see a piece of old refrigerator cardboard over here. I'm going to take ...