From legends to forgotten geniuses: a century of African-American music. A chat with Nicola Gaeta, author of “Black Beauty” ...

Free hip-hop movies hit Pluto TV for the culture’s 53rd birthday: 8 Mile, Set It Off, ATL, Beat Street, and more, all ...

Clive Campbell in 1980. “Hip-hop is both an American immigrant story and a global story,” he later said. “It belongs to everybody.” NMAAHC, SI When 18-year-old D.J. Clive Campbell decided to provide ...

On a hot summer day in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, one of the most controversial, yet most respected, art forms was born. It was on August 11, 1973, at a back-to-school party for ...

DJ Vlad spoke on Boosie Badazz fighting with Say Cheese TV's Shawn Cotton over Cotton's $15K offer for an interview, which Boosie declined. For those unaware, Boosie Badazz was angry with DJ Vlad ...

The Reggae Rise Up Arizona festival took place April 17 to 19 in Tempe, with Rebelution, Stephen Marley, Dirty Heads, SOJA, Protoje, Slightly Stoopid and Steel Pulse among the many acts slugging it ...

Herc Holdings (HRI) shares surged about 10% following the company’s stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, as investors responded positively to solid revenue growth and resilient demand trends ...

Afrika Bambaataa was a formative figure in hip-hop, as influential at the start as his better-known peers Grandmaster Flash and DJ Kool Herc. At South Bronx street parties in the 1970s, he galvanized ...

On this day in 1955, Clive Campbell, better known to the world as DJ Kool Herc, was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At the age of 12, he relocated with his family to the Bronx, New York, where his ...

Stream New York's #1 news - AccuWeather - original content 24/7 Afrika Bambaataa, a man widely considered one of the main pioneers of hip-hop, died in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer on Thursday, ...