As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list. Hip-hop ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Dec. 21, 2023. Find that audio here. New York beams as the birthplace of hip-hop, but it couldn’t have pushed it into mainstream success without Boston ...

BOSTON - After decades of beats, icons, and style, hip-hop music and culture celebrates its 50th anniversary. From the streets of New York to the coastline of California, the music genre has an ...

Even before they released their debut single in 1983, one of Boston’s first hip-hop groups suspected they might have some trouble getting noticed. They were, after all, living in the shadow of New ...

As Hip Hop celebrates its 50 years of influence on music and culture, UMass Boston gives us local context with the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, housed in the Joseph P. Healy Library at UMass. The ...

Fifty years ago today, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell organized a back-to-school jam in the Bronx. The block party would grow into the biggest thing in music since rock 'n’ roll — hip-hop.

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New York beams as the birthplace of hip-hop but other cities share credit for the genre's early success. Why Boston is more than a footnote in hip-hop's success New York beams as the birthplace of hip ...

From beginnings so humble that local labels left their addresses off the liner notes, New York's northeast neighbor grew into a sister city,... As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping ...