The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...

Hip-hop is a fount of constant innovation woven into nearly every corner of American life. So don’t look for cohesion: Lean into the cacophony. By Jon Caramanica Sean “Puffy” Combs in a celebratory ...

It’s an afternoon in July 2023, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in his element. Standing at a podium at the foot of the marble staircase in New York’s City Hall, the Mayor is flanked by staffers ...

Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Today that party is considered by many "the birth of hip-hop." SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Hip-hop has a big birthday next ...

Hip-hop in its earliest incarnations was an experiential thing — not just because rappers and DJs had yet to secure the backing of major labels, but because their work depended on the texture and ...

Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture; Aya de Leon, a writer, performer and instructor at the University of California, Berkeley; ...

The genre is vast, diverse, and can serve as an authentic reflection of contemporary society in the country There have been many terms to try and encapsulate the booming Filipino hip-hop scene, one of ...

Billboard forecasts which next-gen artists, creatives and executives will be tomorrow's greats. If there’s one constant in the music industry, it’s this question: Who’s got next? As hip-hop’s 50th ...

Drake leads Billboard's 100-position Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century retrospective. Below, find a breakdown of the 2000-24 top 10. By Trevor Anderson Drake dominates the competition as the ...