DJ, singer, songwriter and producer Afrika Bambaataa is a breakbeat pioneer and hip-hop trailblazer who was pivotal in the spread of the genre from the late 1970s through house parties and DJ battles.

Hip-hop originated in the Bronx area of New York in the 1970s. Its vocal origins lie in the Jamaican 'toasting' tradition. Toasting is a cross between talking and rhythmic chanting which was ...

Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best soundtracks ...

On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...

Hip-hop arose in communities of color in the 1970s amid political abandonment and economic devastation. Today, hip-hop is practiced in nearly every corner of the globe and is one of the most important ...

Starting out as an alternative culture in the Bronx in New York City in the late 1970s, hip hop – and other broader aspects of black-American culture – has taken hold in East Asia in recent ...