Hip-hop is everywhere. The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas.

We dig into those contradictions - how hip-hop is "fight the power" but also advertises for the power; how rappers rhyme about injustice and inequality while also toting their grind and how they ...

Logan Edra grew up learning about the four elements of hip-hop: rapping, graffiti, DJing and breakdancing. Now, she’s taking that knowledge and her love for the Bronx-born street dance style to ...

The phrase “hip-hop” was used back in the 17th century to indicate a hopping rhythm or motion. In George Villiers’s 1672 comic play “The Rehearsal,” when one character hops off the stage ...

Fifty years after hip-hop was born on Aug. 11, 1973, rap icons from Run-DMC and Snoop Dogg to Slick Rock and Nas celebrated the culture's golden anniversary at NYC's Yankee Stadium on Friday night ...

Hip-hop started at block parties in the Bronx 50 years ago, but it took nearly a decade before the top DJs and MCs immortalized their sound in recording studios. Kurtis Blow's 1980 debut LP is one ...

"It's about hip-hop being born here. Not just its roots and origins in New York, but where it came from from an artistic sense," said LL COOL J about New York's role in hip-hop's creation.