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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 ...

Almighty KG of the Cold Crush Brothers The original hip hop artists had to possess the same hustle and salesmanship. Dan Charnas, author of the The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip ...

At NYU, several courses explore everything from the history of Hip-Hop in America and across the globe to the iconic work of late producer J DIlla, while schools like UC Berkeley and Georgia ...

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 ...