To celebrate the golden anniversary of hip-hop, we rounded up 35 essential hits. These songs were hugely significant for the genre's growth and made an impact on the music industry. Our picks are ...

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary. The one thing that I miss about hip-hop is the rap groups. There are a few prominent ...

It was simple, really. Take a drum-laden beat, say, James Brown’s “Soul Power,” or Chic’s “Good Times,” lace it with some clever, rhyming lyrics — Mercedes, young ladies ? blend the track, smoothly, ...

The Questlove-led all-star mega-medley of hip-hop hits during the Grammy Awards — which featured everyone from Grandmaster Flash and Run-D.M.C. to GloRilla and Lil Uzi Vert — was dazzling indeed, but ...

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Brandon “Jinx” Jenkins rode his bike to Kmart after school. It was 2000 and he was 13 years old, but he wanted Ludacris’ debut album, Back for the First Time. When he got there, he had to convince the ...

The world knows hip-hop as the bass bumping, rhyme scheming, stadium filling musical genre. However, as this year rings in 50 years of the art form, audiences have been exposed to many of the untold ...

Below, Billboard’s hip-hop braintrust ranked the 50 greatest hip-hop album covers of all-time, spanning from from the genre’s earliest days, to some of the new generation’s most daring stars. Take a ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Hip-hop transcends far beyond the music. "One person did not create this culture. It's three. Herc, Bam, and myself," said Grandmaster Flash, the founding father of Hip-hop. Joseph ...

He Who Walks Three Ways, from left to right: Ronald Clark, Juba Kalamka, Lori Branch, and Duro Wicks. This illustration is based on a photo taken by Dorothy Perry in Wicker Park in May 1993, a week ...

BABY BOY AT THE PARTY. AT THE PARTY. THIS YEAR MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIP HOP. THE MILESTONE. CELEBRATE IT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH AWARD SHOW PERFORMANCES, SUMMER TOURS WITH SOME OF THE ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school's "first" hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...