When the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” debuted in 1979, I remember it as a moment of connection. My parents purchased the 12-inch extended single for my sister and me. And, like many kids, we ...

Spend the final week of 2024 with Russell Thompkins Jr. & the New Stylistics, Hip-Hop Holiday Honors, Be’la Dona at the Birchmere, Teen-Beat Showcase, Sammy Rae & the Friends, and two art exhibits. We ...

Lovers & Friends, a daylong music festival, attracted dozens of artists and thousands of their fans to Las Vegas. Usher, Mariah Carey, 50 Cent, Eve, Christina Aguilera, Nelly, En Vogue, Da Brat, Busta ...

DJ Jazzy Jeff is mourning the loss of DJ Gary O, another pioneering Philly artist. Jeff shared the news via Instagram on Thursday (December 19) and lamented the number of friends/Hip-Hop legends ...

Kansas City hip-hop artist Alan Wayne “ The Pradagy,” now 41, has been rocking stages since he was a teenager. Still, having his new apparel brand as an official sponsor for the 19th Street Mainstage ...

Few groups play nicer with others than the Roots. We see that on a regular basis of course, via the troupe’s house band on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” where it’s an integral part of ...

*The Apollo Theater has for over 90 years served as a beacon of Black culture in the heart of Harlem, New York. Earlier this week, a historic evening of hip-hop was held hosted by Grammy-nominated and ...

ATLANTA — Friends of Atlanta hip-hop pioneer Rico Wade are remembering his legacy on Tuesday, just days after his passing at the age of 52. Curtis Daniel III co-owns Patchwerk Recording Studios in ...

"I'm just a study of hip-hop," the Atlanta legend tells PEOPLE in celebration of hip-hop's 50th anniversary this month JSquared Photography For Ludacris, life is about evolving. But that doesn’t mean ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...