5 Grammys and one Emmy in… Robert Glasper deserves all his flowers. Born in Houston, Texas, the songwriter, producer, pianist, and musical arranger is the true definition of someone who lives, ...

Last year, fans of Marvel were wowed by a series of 50 variant covers that injected some of the famed comic book company’s characters into some of Hip-Hop’s classic album covers. Killer Mike, whose ...

The 2010s saw the rise of hip-hop/rap to levels of popularity that it has never seen before with its evolution into the wide array of sounds that are present today. The variety of sounds in today’s ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Hip Hop was born 50 years ago on August 11. Since then, it's created some of the biggest stars in the world. While New York is credited with introducing the genre to the world, ...

Before iTunes and Amazon gave us the luxury of picking and choosing which tracks we want off an album, we had to buy the entire CD or cassette tape to listen to everything we paid for. The intro ...

This past summer, Marvel Comics unveiled dozens of variant covers to their biggest superhero books that were homages to classic hip-hop albums, and they collected all of them in a special issue that ...

The book takes middle school readers on a journey through 50 years of music history. 'A Child's Introduction to Hip-Hop' teaches kids the rich cultural history of the genre Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd ...

Introduction / by DJ Kool Herc -- Prelude -- Necropolis : the Bronx and the politics of abandonment -- Sipple out deh : Jamaica's roots generation and the cultural turn -- Blood and fire, with ...

Like scrimshaw, sand castles, and Haitian ice sculpture, the hip-hop skit is a lost art. Born in the late '80s, the tradition of dramatic album cuts flourished throughout the '90s. Some skits were ...

Harry Allen, “Dreams of a Final Theory,” in Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, edited by Jeff Chang (New York: Basic Civitas, 2006), 7-9. Gregory Korte, “Obama ‘A Jury has Spoken’ in ...

Marvel has released a reprint of their hip-hop cover variants called The Hip-Hop Covers. The 32-page comic features 14 of the acclaimed hip-hop variant covers, but also includes a very special ...