The impact of music extends far beyond the play and pause buttons. Formed in the 1970s as an underground movement, hip-hop has expanded into various art forms and musical sub-genres – with rap ...

Graffiti and hip-hop culture have been intertwined since their emergence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in ...

BRONX, New York (WABC) -- Hip hop history is so important to both artists and fans. In fact, "knowledge" is one of the so-called five pillars of hip-hop. The others are MCing, DJing, breakdancing, and ...

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The screening of Wild Style highlights another milestone in Freddy's career. Widely considered one of the earliest films to portray hip-hop culture, the movie follows the fictional story of a graffiti ...

Fred Brathwaite—better known as Fab 5 Freddy—contains multitudes. Born and raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, he grew up in a house steeped in books, music, and radical Black consciousness. Skipping school ...

This article was originally published in Metropolis Magazine as "Hip-Hop Architecture's Philip Johnson Moment". More than 40 years after it emerged from South Bronx house parties, hip-hop has become a ...

Darrell "Artistic" Roberts works on a mural at the Logan Square permission wall (2934 W. Medill, near Milwaukee and Fullerton) on the Saturday before Halloween. Credit: Kim Kovacik for Chicago Reader ...

Philly rapper Reef the Lost Cauze poses for a photo. (Emily Neil/WHYY) Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a party thrown by DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx ignited a culture that has since spread throughout ...

Seattle DJ/graffiti artist/B-Boy extraordinaire Jeff Higashi—aka Soul One, aka Soul Uno—passed away in his sleep on March 19. The outpouring of love among his peers in the local music scene was ...