The impact of music extends far beyond the play and pause buttons. Formed in the 1970s as an underground movement, hip-hop has expanded into various art forms and musical sub-genres – with rap ...

Wane One, Fab Five Freddy and Lee Quiñones recall evolution of graffiti In 1980s New York, hip-hop was the soundtrack of the city, blaring through the neighborhoods on boom boxes and blasting groups ...

BRONX, New York (WABC) -- Hip hop history is so important to both artists and fans. In fact, "knowledge" is one of the so-called five pillars of hip-hop. The others are MCing, DJing, breakdancing, and ...

It’s been over 40 years since my introduction to hip-hop. We were born on opposite ends of the country, but the instant connection I had to this art form is a testament to the genre’s transcendent ...

It was simple, really. Take a drum-laden beat, say, James Brown’s “Soul Power,” or Chic’s “Good Times,” lace it with some clever, rhyming lyrics — Mercedes, young ladies ? blend the track, smoothly, ...

Knight is a local DJ and rapper who lives in North Park. I bought my first hip-hop single as a kid. It was the Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight.” That’s when I fell in love with hip-hop. Later on in ...