For five decades, hip-hop has redefined the soundscape of American music and created a billion-dollar industry in its wake. Hip-hop as we know it has evolved way past its humble beginnings in the ...

From DJ Kool Herc and The Last Poets to Prophets of Da City and Mode 9, here’s how African history has influenced hip-hop – and vice-versa – 50 years after the genre was born.

“We started traveling, I would sing, I would dance, play instruments, whatever was needed to make the show great,” said Eshe. On the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, while the music has always ...

Grammy-nominated Alphabet Rockers, who define hip-hop as a freedom culture, perform during the inaugural Hip-Hop Block Party at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History on ...

Graf Mack now requires students to take hip-hop and West African dance. The young apprentices have more freedom to choose the techniques that interest them, regardless of gender or body type ...

White teenagers across America did the Lindy Hop on TV dance shows such as Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand.”In the 1920s, a great mass of white Americans began doing a West African (Ashanti ...

Both American b-girls were eliminated in the Aug. 9 round-robin phase, a blow to the country representing the birthplace of hip-hop in what could be the discipline’s only Games appearance.

A new musical blending contemporary hip-hop music and Catholic liturgy debuted Feb. 14-16 at the Lyke House, a Catholic Newman Center serving historically Black colleges in Atlanta.. The "Hip-Hop ...

The National Museum of African American History will bring hip-hop’s signature beats to the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 12.