Since 1973, hip-hop has been a megaphone for Black men. The mental health struggles, sexual awakenings, and aging revelations have been shared worldwide in its lyrics and advocacy. To celebrate ...

Hip-Hop didn’t pull its style, swag and samples from thin air. Like highwater slacks to younger siblings, they were passed down from an elder generation as a bundle of knowledge. Baby boomers of their ...

Within the continuous additions to and retellings of music history, a genre such as hip-hop is usually caught within efforts to categorize and explain its origins, which happened largely outside of ...

Pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash has signed on as a consultant for The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series about the rise of disco, punk, and hip-hop in 1970s New York. The New York Post ...

Independent label entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, whose career spanned the worlds of ’50s R&B and first-generation ’70s rap, died Jan. 7 in New York. He was 93, according to a blog post by Dan Charnas, ...

As a teenager Grandmaster Flash began pioneering the turntable-as-instrument, playing the now iconic Bronx block parties that gave birth to hip-hop and revolutionized music. On Friday, he was back ...