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The history you think you know about hip-hop is likely not correct. Actually, let’s run that back. The history of hip-hop that you think you know might not be accurate. Rather, the origin of hip ...

Tariq Nasheed is the director of Microphone Check, a documentary about the hidden history of hip-hop. Watch the film’s ...

Visit an online experience on the origins of hip-hop by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Check out the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap that includes more than 120 ...

The emergence of a new music genre, hip hop, produced DJs who were significantly more skilled. These DJs – or turntablists, as they came to be known – were performers and musical artists in ...

the series will paint a portrait of the unique relationship between Hip Hop and the political history of the U.S. Discover the factors that led to the birth of Hip Hop and its first socially ...

Call it growing pains: Unlike, say, classical or country, 50 years is a blip in the history of music. And for much of that time, critics regarded hip-hop as a passing fad. Then it was seen as an ...

After being nominated three times, A Tribe Called Quest became the 12th hip-hop act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On Saturday evening, October 19, in Cleveland, A Tribe Called ...