This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...
Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...
Young Thug, or should we say No, My Name Is Jeffery, is taking fashion lovers back to the 80s in the latest Puma campaign. Similar to Run DMC and LL Cool J in their prime, Thugger dons entire ...
A few of old-school hip-hop's finest. Photo illustration by Ellie Skrzat for Slate. Photos by Vince Bucci/Getty Images, Stringer PN/Reuters, Blake Sell/Reuters, and Mario Anzuoni/Reuters. This summer ...
People all around the world are celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop on Aug. 11. It was on this day in 1973 that DJ Kool Herc, playing a back-to-school party in The Bronx, introduced his ...
DJ Cassidy has been your new quarantine best buddy in 2020, if you have any affinity at all for the classic R&B that came between the Motown era and the turn of the century, or for early hip-hip. In ...
Hip-hop and rap have been driving culture in the U.S. for almost four decades now, especially in America. So why are these ...
Top ‘80s songs include entries from across the musical spectrum. Throughout 1980s there was a renaissance occurring within music, one which stretched throughout all genres be it pop, rock, country, ...
Radio Personality Dee Barnes arrives at the Hennessy and Honey Collective party at The Vanguard on October 29, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Maury Phillips/WireImage) *Dee Barnes became a ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Delaware celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this weekend with a Hip-Hop ...
He was a self-proclaimed “vandal” who quickly became a vanguard. This week, Fab 5 Freddy, visual artist, documentarian and former host of “Yo! MTV Raps,” visited “Renaissance Man.” The New York native ...