New books collecting objects central to rap’s physical history demonstrate the importance of celebrating these relics before they vanish. Credit... Supported by By Jon Caramanica For the last year, ...

Everyone’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) just got its first-ever hip hop mixtape, featuring some of the biggest hits in hip hop from the early ’90s until today. The Hip Hop ...

At first many dismissed it as a fad when it exploded out of the Bronx after a dance party in the summer of 1973 where Dj Kool Herc used two turntables to switch back and forth between two records to ...

Guess Who’s Back? also made a commercial impact, charting on Billboard and helping to usher in the G-Unit era. The momentum ...

The GRAMMY Museum is celebrating 50 years of hip-hop with the “Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit.” Running from October 7 until September 4, 2024, the 5,000-square foot installation explores the ...

I’m from the small Central Illinois town of Decatur. My hometown is one of the sites where the war on drugs and many of its battles took place. In 2018, Decatur was listed at number seven in USA Today ...

Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Winter 2023 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. Hip-hop has been the cornerstone of New York City's culture since its evolution in the Bronx in the 1970s.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few groups have contributed more to universal vernacular than Hip Hop. Having originated in New York City and expanded to other ...

Today, we celebrate the 60th birthday of one of Hip Hop’s true pioneers and West Coast legends; Too $hort, born Todd Anthony ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Milwaukee's hip-hop scene has reached a golden age. Not that there hasn't been success before. But what we're seeing now coming ...