This week in New York and around the United States hip-hop stars and fans celebrated the genre’s fiftieth anniversary with a series of events. It culminated in a major day-long live show featuring ...

It’s impossible to overlook hip-hop’s profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...

African Artists: Stormin’ Into The Hip-Hop World For some reason or another, there exists the misconception that African artists cannot be authentically Hip-Hop, or that their sound is exotic—foreign ...

The United Nations will host the first ever Global Hip-Hop Summit in South Africa tomorrow (Oct. 20) in an effort to achieve their Millennium Development Goals. The UN’s Millennium Development Goals ...

Could the Love & Hip Hop franchise be expanding to a new continent? While the jury may still be out on if that would ever or happen or not, one thing is for certain: it seems like the franchise’s ...

(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...

Tired of big booties, sizzurp and blunts? I’ve got your back, bro. Over the past few years, I’ve accumulated a collection of hip-hop from across the seas. The hip-hop styles vary from country to ...

Hip-hop has always served as a compass for showing the direction that urban culture has taken on a variety of issues—and Africa is no exception. Suggested Reading Black TV Shows of 2025 You Need to ...

Legendary South African hip-hop artist MC ProKid has died. Family members of the MC confirmed that the 37-year-old had died from a massive seizure on Thursday. From ‘Welcome To Derry’ to ‘The Smashing ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Hip-hop music is celebrating 50 years, and since its inception the impact it’s had on ...