In 1979, Kurt Walker, a 20-year-old from the Bronx whose stage name was “Kurtis Blow,” signed a contract with Mercury Records to release the song Christmas Rappin. This was the first time a major ...

Old skool hip-hop showed the kids a thing or two Sunday night at the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show. Old skool hip-hop showed the kids a thing or two Sunday night at the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI ...

Black and Blue, DeepThinka Records and the Icon have gotten together to organize a series of “throwback concerts”. The first oneis tonight and will feature hip hop legends Kool G Rap, Raekwon The Chef ...

Coming out of the fertile early '80s New York rap scene, Whodini were one of the first rap groups to add a straight R&B twist to their music, thus laying the groundwork for the new jack swing movement ...

Dusty Henry of KEXP's 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast explores a groundbreaking innovation by 12-year-old Theodore Livingston, aka Grand Wizzard Theodore. This year, NPR, along with member stations, has ...

The Muth Commuity Players are bring Shrek The Musical Live on Stage to the Bronner Performing Arts Center in Frankenmuth.

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NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...