Thanks to great new singles from Beyoncé and Drake, it’s become the summer of hip hop with house beats. Larger-than-life figures like those two have the power to dominate the conversation and steer ...

Hip-hop was born in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout ...

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...