Hip-hop heads and other fans of the genre, mark your calendars. The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is bringing back its Hip-Hop Block Party on August 12, 2023. Join ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- KRS-One announced the star-studded guests who will be performing during the 50th anniversary event and the block party festival in celebration of all things hip hop. On a hot summer ...
The third in a series of Retropolis stories looking back at moments in hip-hop history during the week of the music genre’s 50th anniversary. What ended as the day that hip-hop was born began hours ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will host its inaugural Hip-Hop Block Party Saturday, Aug. 13, to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of ...
On August 11, 1973, the 102-unit apartment complex at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the New York City borough of The Bronx became more than just a residential building. It became the birthplace of a new and ...
Legends of hip-hop came together in Morris Heights on Wednesday to announce the list of artists set to perform at what they’re calling hip-hop’s biggest block party, happening this weekend. Rap icon ...
In the summer of 1998, the line to get into Mecca on a Sunday night might stretch from the entrance to the Tunnel nightclub on Manhattan’s 12th Avenue all the way to the end of the block; hundreds of ...
In August 1973, Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc, was DJing his sister’s back-to-school dance party in the Bronx. Campbell combined two turntables and a mixer to break the beats of songs — and, in the ...
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is celebrating hip-hop music with an inaugural block party. The block party will mark the first anniversary of the ...