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Communities have a long history of storytelling ... Pattern of Cultural Appropriation The misrepresentation of hip-hop's ...

As an immigrant’s son, I’d grown up feeling alone and out of place, but the "Hamilton" soundtrack spoke to me.

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 ...

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-hop is not what you think it is. Okay, enough revisions ...

On this day in Hip-Hop history, Brooklyn’s own Jay-Z released he would-be retirement album The Black Album. Although there ...

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 ...

The album also introduced fans to the poetic, weed-puffing duo Smif N Wessun and Heltah Skeltah, the origin of the late ... forever etch Black Moon in Hip Hop history.

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 ...