Welcome to the 50th year of hip-hop. Or, well, 50 years and one week, I suppose. Depending on whom you ask, the prevailing thought is that Aug. 11, 1973, is the true birthday of the artform. DJ Kool ...

Eminem has won favorite male hip-hop artist at the 2025 American Music Awards. Twenty-two years after taking home his first AMA in the same category, Slim Shady returned to win against some loaded ...

PEOPLE spoke with several influential artists and newcomers about hip-hop's biggest milestone to date, 50 years after it was born in the Bronx Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV ...

As the 50th year of hip-hop comes to a close, the AFRO salutes the pioneers of hip-hop and those who have sustained the genre for 50 years and those who carry it into the future. Started on Aug. 11, ...

BRONX, New York (WABC) -- As The Notorious B.I.G. once put it, "you never thought that hip-hop would take it this far." With this year marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, that line has a newfound ...

Arriving in February, the LP is set to feature J.I.D, Tierra Whack and production from DJ Premier.

On August 11, Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, will host Hip-Hop 50 Live, a one-time festival put on by Nas’ entertainment brand Mass Appeal. The lineup for the one-day fest includes some of the ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Presented by Kennedy-King College and the Chicago Local Organizing Committee for the 2006 National Hip-Hop Political Convention, this series of screenings, lectures, and panel discussions continues ...

Slick Rick calls it the “purest form of art.” Chance the Rapper sees it as a “tool for mobility.” E-40 credits it for turning “dollar-ionaires into billionaires.” And Wiz Khalifa calls it a culture ...