In Hip-Hop and R&B music history, few dates stand out more than March 21. This day marks the anniversary of significant ...

The glass ceiling in hip-hop remains to be broken. Back in the day, artists such as Queen Latifah and MC Lyte rocked the mike as hip-hop spread from the underground to the mainstream, and Denverite ...

Salt-N-Pepa at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony (Photo credit: Nagashia Jackson) Salt-N-Pepa, a name that symbolizes their spicy and bold approach to music, emerged from Queens, New York, in 1986 ...

30 years ago today, Hip Hop icon Tupac Shakur released his fourth studio album All Eyez On Me on February 13, 1996 through Death Row Records and Interscope Records, delivering what would become one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VJ Ralph McDaniels at work lining up a music video for his show, "Video Music Box" on WNYC-TV on January 7, 1988, in New York City ...

On this day in 2001, MTV premiered Carmen: A Hip Hopera, a genre-bending, culture-shifting reinterpretation of Georges Bizet’s classic opera Carmen—with a Hip Hop twist that made waves through both ...

Hip-hop's origins are often summed up with the phrase “making something out of nothing,” though it may be more accurate to say hip-hop was makeshift out of necessity. In the socioeconomic context of ...

Introduction / Nelson George -- Players -- Rocking : gang culture and the beginnings of hip-hop -- Forefathers : B-boy and DJ culture in the Bronx -- MCs take the stage : the rise of MC crews -- ...

What's going on with rap? After celebrating 50 years of legacy in 2023 with marquee moments like the Hip Hop 50 multi-headliner concert at Yankee Stadium, plus Kendrick Lamar's historic run – capped ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego. It's Andrew Bowen in for Jade Hindman on today's show. November is National Hip Hop History Month , and if you didn't know , San Diego has a thriving hip hop scene , we'll ...

The 1980s were a decade when artists pushed boundaries and challenged social norms through provocative lyrics. While some tracks became cultural touchstones that sparked important conversations about ...

Hip-hop is a cultural movement: A synthesis of cumulative Black artistic expression, urban hardship and resiliency born out of marginalization. Out of block parties in The Bronx, New York, in the ...