This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

When the needle hit the records on DJ Kool Herc's turntable, launching hip-hop's start 50 years ago, the sound pushed a new culture into the arts, especially music and fashion. Hip-hop's conversation ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — There’s a new exhibit making its debut at the Muskegon Museum of Art Thursday. Michigan native, Tiff Massey, is taking guests back to the 1980s with this hip-hop-inspired ...

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NPR's Juana Summers visits a new exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City that celebrates 50 years of fashion in hip hop music. CARDI B: (Rapping) These is red bottoms, these is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx. But here, too, hip-hop happened.

On stage and in magazine spreads, rappers have waged a Cold War about who could dress the flyest, wear the most outré thing, push the envelope the furthest. And they backed it up on their songs, ...

“You learn rap from the streets.” The response, taken from an interviewee in the hip-hop documentary, Big Fun in the Big Town, truly embodies what this 25-year-old film is all about. The year was 1986 ...

Hip-hop works fast – and to be involved is to celebrate the past but to not miss the future. As the 50th anniversary of hip-hop is upon us, the mission to shock, puncture, and uplift people is still ...

The Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx. But here, too, hip-hop happened. "It was just a general rink, a skating rink, but everybody wanted to ...