While hip-hop hinted at itself through the 20th century, it solidified into a unique genre and art form in the 1970s in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City. During this time, block parties ...

Hip-hop is a genre of music that originated in the United States in the 1970s. It has since grown to become a global phenomenon, with millions of fans around the world. The genre has been shaped ...

DJ, singer, songwriter and producer Afrika Bambaataa is a breakbeat pioneer and hip-hop trailblazer who was pivotal in the spread of the genre from the late 1970s through house parties and DJ battles.

On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...

Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st century, is something a bit different, a show in which fine art is sprinkled through ...

Many Jewish rappers, managers and industry executives from different backgrounds and nationalities have left their mark on hip-hop culture ... was growing up in the 1970s on Long Island.

Hip-hop arose in communities of color in the 1970s amid political abandonment and economic devastation. Today, hip-hop is practiced in nearly every corner of the globe and is one of the most important ...

Starting out as an alternative culture in the Bronx in New York City in the late 1970s, hip hop – and other broader aspects of black-American culture – has taken hold in East Asia in recent ...