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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine getting a birthday invitation to dress like rappers in 2025. What exactly do you even wear? Skinny jeans? The 50-plus-year ...

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

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 ...

On August 11, 1973, hip-hop was born, changing music and popular culture forever. But in each decade since, the genre has been distinct, with its own style, stars and sounds. In honor of hip-hop’s ...

From Clipse to Little Simz, the Chicago festival’s latest lineup highlights hip-hop, R&B, pop, electronica and more. While some artists fell exclusively on either end of the spectrum, there’s no ...

Hip-hop may have started out in the park, but has blossomed into a cultural force worldwide, with people from all walks of life claiming it as their own. The early '90s marked the beginning of this ...

What started out as a family tradition turned into a priority when Robert Gunn, owner of ILLY’S Fire Pizza, lost his job working for a telephone company. Robert owns the ‘80s-’90s hip hop-themed pizza ...

The US Library of Congress has unveiled Citizen DJ, a digital tool that allows you to remix sounds from its massive collection of film, television, video and sound recordings. It was created by ...

“What’s your favorite hip-hop song?” A fair enough question from my hip-hop rhetoric professor, it was simple but loaded; any answer likely met with a heaping portion of judgment. Most students in the ...