Ever since hip-hop first blossomed out of the South Bronx, there has been a desire by filmmakers to capture visual evidence of the culture in motion. Early documentaries, like Tony Silver’s classic ...

Netflix's Hip-Hop Origins is great music, but bad history. If you're a rap fan, you'll burn through this four-part documentary all the same. Capably narrated by Canadian rapper/documentarian Shad ...

When most music lovers think of a watershed moment for rap, they picture vinyl scratches, raw ambition, and an unvarnished reflection of urban life—a scene that crystallized between the mid‑1980s and ...

In this writer's humble opinion, the single greatest invention in the history of mankind (give or take, the odd printing press or internal combustion engine) is Netflix Instant. No single ...

Though critics and fans disagree on its exact start and end dates, many have labeled the period stretching from 1987 to 1996 the “Golden Age of Hip-Hop.” With heavy groundwork laid by Run DMC, the ...