Hip-hop journalist James Bernard, co-founder of The Source and XXL, was confirmed dead after being missing since 2024.

Hip hop sneakers were never just footwear. From early block parties to worldwide fame, shoes like Superstars, Air Force 1s, ...

Numerous books have been written about the origins of hip-hop and its evolution from an underground phenomenon to a global force. While its growth since the 1990s had been well-documented, here are ...

Fifty years into hip-hop, we've gotten used to decades of headlines proclaiming the genre's culture is homophobic and misogynistic — that generations of queer talents were forced to the peripheries ...

Politicians once abhorred rap stars. Now they're embracing them. Feb. 14, 2013 -- In the 1990s Washington was polarized on many of the same issues as today: taxes, the economy, gun control. But there ...

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, January 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Celebrated hip-hop recording artist and film ...

August 11 is National Hip-Hop Celebration Day! The celebration was made official by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last July, following the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. In a speech on the Senate ...

Soon after the fall 1979 release of “Rapper’s Delight,” versions of the first commercially successful rap recording began cropping up around the world. The rapid spread of “Rapper’s Delight” is an ...

Hip-hop was birthed by DJ Kool Herc, in a South Bronx apartment complex in the 70s. A back-to-school fundraiser with an admission fee of .25 cents for ladies and .50 cents for gents turned into a ...

Content warning: This article contains descriptions of mental health issues and suicide. "Black kids have to figure it out. We don't have rehabs to go to. You gotta rehab yourself," Master P said on ...

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 ...