“Yeeking,” for those unfamiliar, is an up-tempo dance style created in Atlanta. Most yeek routines contain a gamut of dance moves, including the “prep,” transformer” and “devastator.” But “yeek” is ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, the energetic duo Kid N Play released their sophomore album Funhouse, which now celebrates its 36th anniversary. Dropped on June 12, 1990 through Select Records, the ...

SEATTLE — The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop throughout the month of August. Here are some events, exhibits, and pop-ups honoring hip-hop’s history. The ...

“This is black culture,” said Nick Gates, who is co-teaching hip-hop at COCA (Center for Creative Arts) in University City this summer. “A lot of black youth don’t know about the four elements of ...

The place – Bronx, New York. The sound – unlike anything anyone had ever heard before. Beat-driven hooks and solos, repeated or slowed down or speeded up. Those same beats played at the same time as ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

HISTORY. AUGUST 11TH, 1973, JAMAICAN BORN DJ KOOL HERC PERFORMED AT A PARTY IN THE BRONX, NEW YORK, USING TWO TURNTABLES, HE LOOPED MUSICAL BREAKS IN REAL TIME, CREATING MORE SPACE FOR PARTY GOERS TO ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, KQED’s year-long exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history. n 1990, three years before she asked the world “Who you callin’ a bitch?” on her breakout ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years on, the details of that historic night in the Bronx — the night everyone now says gave birth to hip-hop — still elude ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. In Questlove’s fascinating new book “Hip-Hop Is History,” he rewrites hip ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On Saturday, Feb. 8, Hip Hop Canvas: Beats, Art & Fashion blended dance, singing, ...

On this day in 2021, the Hip Hop world lost one of its most creative minds when Gregory Jacobs, better known as Shock G of Digital Underground, passed away in Tampa, Florida. He was 57 years old.