It’s the English side of me that never dies,” said the pioneering wordsmith who is celebrating 40 years of hip-hop classics ...

The Crocodile might’ve waddled a few blocks north, but opposite the old venue at Second Avenue and Blanchard Street, a new music night is taking shape in the heart of Belltown. In the summer of 2024, ...

Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. When Hip-Hop was being passed off as a fad that wouldn’t last beyond “Rapper’s ...

On this date in 1985, Hip-Hop bigwig Russell Simmons, along with film producer Michael Schultz, unveiled the Hip-Hop glory days fairy tale about the early days of Def Jam in the Warner ...

This story corrects the day of the performances of "Hip Hop Nutcracker." It was June of 1980 when Kurtis Blow released “The Breaks,” the first rap song to be certified gold and one of the first hits ...

The topic of classic hip-hop albums is among the quintessential barbershop conversations that has transcended from shop chairs to social media platforms. And of course, no one LP is at the helm of the ...

Perhaps more than any other style of music, hip-hop songs are best to dance to. In fact, when hip-hop was invented, there were five tenets to the art form, from lyricism to DJing to dancing. So, ...

In 2002, “Air Force Ones,” the third single released from St. Louis rapper Nelly’s second album Nellyville, became his third top 5 hit from that album, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. 23 ...

Classic hip-hop music just received a big boost with the launch of a brand new radio station, 94.7 The Block! Finally, terrestrial radio has remembered a population throughout the five boroughs who ...

Get into the holiday spirit with some classics from Run-D.M.C. and Eazy-E, among many more. By Michael Saponara Christmas and hip-hop have enjoyed plenty of overlap over the years as rappers have ...

Re-mixed, re-imagined version is a family-friendly holiday mash-up Tchaikovsky goes hip hop? Well, that’s the breaks. Hip hop legend Kurtis Blow will be featured as MC of “The Hip Hop Nutcracker,” ...