NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song’s vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...

Cardi B and (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Kathy Hutchins) and Jay-Z (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Tinseltown) August 11 marks a significant milestone in music history as hip-hop celebrates ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

Prolific Hip Hop producer Statik Selektah is losing his mind over the growing support for "Sample Snitching" -- highlighting ...

Xabier Gómez García, bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat which includes Rosalía’s hometown of Sant Esteve Sesrovires near ...

A Schoolhouse Rock sample is not what you'd expect to hear from a hip-hop group, but De La Soul has never played by the rules. After an excruciatingly long wait, all of their albums are finally ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1991, only one album into its career, De La Soul tried to pull off an unusually audacious move. The hip-hop trio’s 1989 debut, 3 Feet High and Rising, was a ...

“What’s your favorite hip-hop song?” A fair enough question from my hip-hop rhetoric professor, it was simple but loaded; any answer likely met with a heaping portion of judgment. Most students in the ...

Reviewing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message" in 1982, New York Times critic Robert Palmer wrote, "Until 'The Message,' the message of the overwhelming majority of rap records was ...

No one fights like family. If you’ve never experienced it firsthand you’d be shocked at the depths of anger one’s own kin can elicit — and whatever you do, do not get in the middle of a battle between ...

Photo by Brandon Weldon, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives Hip-hop de los Andes en el National Mall con Andes MC y Eber Miranda En los años 70, en las calles del Bronx, la cultura del hip-hop empezó a ...