As we celebrate hip-hop's 50th anniversary this August, some people might wonder, what exactly is hip-hop? Merriam-Webster defines hip-hop as a "a cultural movement associated especially with rap ...

John Harrington has led local hip-hop group Midwest Avengers for 25 years, in addition to being a longtime organizer of annual graffiti festival Paint Louis. (St. Louis Public Radio) – A new St. Louis ...

The 50th birthday of hip-hop is bringing out all kinds of celebrations, from the Yankee Stadium takeover in New York to a slew of “Hip-Hop 50”-related editorials from just about every publication that ...

Usher’s many R&B hits may be providing the soundtrack for the first Super Bowl in Las Vegas, as the former Park MGM and Caesars Palace resident headliner performs during the halftime show at Allegiant ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - There’s a push happening in Nashville to bridge the gap between hip-hop music and community service. Amazon’s second annual “Hip Hop Hooray” community service initiative ...

The documentary “Up the Ridge” takes a sobering look at how a rural community in Southwest Virginia embraced the prison industry after the town’s primary employer, a coal company, went out of business ...

And now, a different ’80s revival. At B.B. King’s on October 21, a celebration of hip-hop history coincided with the release of Ernie Paniccioli‘s photography book Who Shot Ya?. Partygoers sported ...

It will be words about rap and rapping about words during this year’s South Florida Book Festival, which focuses on hip-hop. Staged at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort ...

There was no hip hop hurray Sunday night. Bruno Mars won the Grammy for album of the year with "24K Magic," squelching hopes that an album by a hip-hop artist would win the Recording Academy's top ...

The genre’s peak, which I dub hip-hop’s “Renaissance Era,” started 30 years ago. It’s probably impossible to be completely objective when judging art; often, the stuff we love is because of how it ...

Accompanying this year's Art of Hip-hop event at the Albright-Knox is an entire weekend of hip-hop in local clubs, dubbed the Buffalo Hip-hop Festival. Here's the event's lineup: >The Art of Hip-hop ...