In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

NEW YORK — Emceeing, DJing, graffiti, knowledge and break dancing. These are the five elements of one of the most popular and controversial genres that has influenced generations of young artists ...

BRONX, New York (WABC) -- Hip hop history is so important to both artists and fans. In fact, "knowledge" is one of the so-called five pillars of hip-hop. The others are MCing, DJing, breakdancing, and ...

Emmanuel Bates breakdancing at "In The Lab: Evolution of Hip Hop Dance," a summer program for students started by the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on June 15, 2011. The event included break dancers ...

As hip-hop culture started to take hold in New Orleans in the early 1980s, it wasn’t just the new music that was influencing locals. A number of young Black New Orleanians started adapting the dance ...

Hip-hop hit Broadway cement over 30 years ago, but it didn’t make it inside one of its theaters – as entirely its own show – until now. In “Rennie Harris’ Legends of Hip-Hop,” the originators of ...

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It’s difficult to know where to begin in approaching a film like Joel Silberg’s 1984 project Breakin’, which proudly conveyed its worthiness in our collective nostalgic zeitgeist, through home ...