Grandmaster Flash will revisit his journey through hip-hop — from Bronx block parties to the world stage — in his new memoir ...

Hop’s early days in his 2026 memoir *Birth of a Culture*, shifting focus from personal trauma to cultural storytelling.

As hip-hop evolves through time while sampling its own past, how do new audience members learn its history? Is there a correct way to learn about hip-hop?

Known as the human beatbox, rapper Doug E. Fresh created a signature style that dominated hip-hop in the mid-1980s.

Before he topped the charts with 'Baby Got Back', the Seattle-based MC scored a regional hit with an oddball redneck rap ...

This career-spanning retrospective highlights the moments — past and present — where Trugoy truly shined. These are the ...

Dive into the texts that capture the genre’s evolution—from street cyphers and style revolutions to political expression and Black culture.

The Long Island hip hop legends have always been a darker, edgier group than most give them credit, but their first new album in nearly a decade proves them more than capable of taking the 2020s rap ...

Jimmy “Super Rhymes” Spicer, whose 15-minute single “Adventure of Super Rhymes” is widely considered hip-hop’s first storytelling rap, died from cancer in 2019 in financial peril. As Russell Simmons’s ...

By the 1970s, building fires — about 40 a day — raged, due to disinvestment, arson, and neglect by landlords and the ...