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From Bronx block parties to university lecture halls and global concert stages, storytelling has always been at the heart of hip-hop. What began in the 1970s as a street-level form of expression has ...

Chuck D famously rapped “our freedom of speech is freedom or death” on Public Enemy’s 1989 single “Fight the Power,” one of hip-hop’s most powerful anthems. Thirty-five years later, the Rock & Roll ...

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Keith LeBlanc, the Tackhead drummer, producer, and session musician best known for his work on classic hip-hop songs by Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang, died on Thursday (April 4) due to an ...

HACKENSACK — The Bronx may be widely known as the birthplace of hip-hop, but the genre also has deep roots in Bergen County, where the Sugarhill Gang brought the art form to the masses with “Rapper's ...

The handwriting projected onto the large screen in Roone Arledge Auditorium read “4BF = 6CCR = Full Loop Extraction,” or “Four bars forward is equal to six counterclockwise revolutions, equals full ...

Grandmaster Flash, real name Joseph Saddler, rose to fame in the 1970s as a pioneer of the hip-hop movement and DJing. Born in the Bronx, a neighborhood in New York, Flash began his career as a local ...

BAMA is launching "the ICE Medal of Honor to prominently recognize and honor" Black American music, co-founder Michael Mauldin tells PEOPLE Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in ...

Music icons Alicia Keys and Grandmaster Flash soon will be recognized by the Black American Music Assn. for their creativity and contributions to the music world and Black culture. The organization ...

Hip-hop took center stage throughout the 2023 Video Music Awards. Between the main show and pre-show, the night featured boisterous performances from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat, A ...