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Today on Commotion, culture critics Mark Anthony Neal and Jay Smooth discuss the complicated history of the hip-hop pioneer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx. But here, too, hip-hop happened.

Afrika Bambaataa, the pioneering hip-hop DJ and producer who faced multiple accusations of child sexual assault, has died at ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

Even before they released their debut single in 1983, one of Boston’s first hip-hop groups suspected they might have some trouble getting noticed. They were, after all, living in the shadow of New ...

A rare collection of early Hip-Hop flyers, handwritten rhymes and cultural artifacts from Cold Crush Brothers pioneer Easy A.D. is hitting the auction block through HipHopGrails, a platform led by ...

To hear Lovebug Starski tell it, he was there when the phrase “hip-hop” was coined, trading the two words back and forth while improvising lines with Cowboy of the Furious Five at a farewell party for ...

In 2024, rap music and hip-hop culture are almost inextricable from the commercial record industry. Created and incubated by people on the socioeconomic margins and firmly outside of the mainstream, ...

The Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx. But here, too, hip-hop happened. "It was just a general rink, a skating rink, but everybody wanted to ...