Hip-Hop Culture

Ralph McDaniels Celebrates 30 Years of Video Music Box

New York is not only the birthplace of hip-hop culture, but the home of the first television program to broadcast rap videos. Video visionary Ralph McDaniels launched "Video Music Box" 30 years ago and now, three decades and a global phenomenon later, the hip-hop nation is ready to celebrate. Among ... More >>

MORE BOUNCE

Output pumps it up in Brooklyn

Baauer & Just Blaze - Webster Hall - 2/15/13

Baauer/Just Blaze Webster Hall Friday, February 15 Better than: Blogsplaining the obvious. For me, the "Harlem Shake" dance craze--not to be confused with "Harlem Shake" or the actual Harlem shake--was one of those weird internet things (sort of like foreign policy decisions or what happened on la ... More >>

How to Break

'Summer Sail' w/ the Rub

RAPPER'S DELIGHT

No sleep till Queens 
(by way of Manhattan)

'On the Rocks' w/ Flosstradamus+Baauer

Awolnation

DEEPER THAN RAP

The Rub welcome you to 
their house party, party

HOMETOWN HERO

Class is in session 
at Brooklyn’s Southpaw

MEMORY LANE

Weren't the '70s the best?

Geoff Barrow's Sour Rhymes

The member of Portishead excavates his band's hip-hop roots

SURVIVAL OF THE ILLEST

DMX may have seen this coming

A Clip Of Young Vin Diesel Rapping (Or Trying To) Over Arthur Russell's Beats Has Surfaced

Back in the '80s, New York's downtown brought together lots of people, and, well, let's just let the official description of the file take over here: "Fragments of an aborted recording session at Battery Sound NYC in 1986 which brought together fledgling rapper Mark Sinclair--today better known as ... More >>

'Girls & Boys Presents Crookers+Jack Beats'

'Alteration Presents Wavewhore+Odi'

NYC Record Store/Hip-Hop Mecca Fat Beats Is Closing

"The slogan is it's the 'Last Stop for Hip Hop," a Fat Beats employee told us last year. "But now it literally is. All the other ones closed down." From XXL now comes word that Fat Beats itself will do the same, shuttering both its New York and L.A. locations. (They'll continue on at fatbeats.com ... More >>

Don't Title Your Book This: Losing My Cool: How A Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture

​Ah! From the n 1 contributor (?!) and man who once brought you the famous Washington Post op-ed "Yes, Blame Hip-Hop," comes the book version, the insanely titled Losing My Cool: How A Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture, which, wow! 15,000 books! Let's type out some of the pre ... More >>

Vinyl Life, Furthering the Death of AutoTune

NYC threesome makes electro-jams the old-fashioned way

KRS One+DJ Cool Herc

Classic Hip Hop Documentary Wild Style Gets a Week at Film Forum

Russell Simmons Knows A Sales Opportunity When He Sees One

ALL CITY

The seminal hip-hop film Wild Style turns 25

Anti-Energy Drink Comes to NYC

Adventures in Press Releases: The Anti-Energy Drink

Planet B-Boy Obsesses Over Mad Skillz

Breakdancing doc jacks Michael Moore

Sitcommunism

Danny Hoch's hip-hop comedy sails to Cuba

All Eyes on Her

The Source sexual harassment trial vindicates Kim Osorio to the tune of $15.5 million

More Deft Wit From the Oft-Maligned Turntablist Camp

Christina Aguilera Saves Hip-Hop

Classics at Generation Gap

Downtown theater artists bend old plays to new purposes

Body Language

David LaChapelle's dance doc pops when it's booty-shakin' but locks with its hollow history

B-Boy Birthday

New York Hip-Hop Theater Festival grooves into its fifth year

Blow Up

David LaChapelle plays his krump card with a South Central dance doc

Can Flow Will Flow

'Give them an apocalypse, and they would dance': Jeff Chang's monumental hip-hop history

NY Mirror

Back to the beat: Taking classes from hip-hop's old school

Breaking Down

Old-guard hip-hop dancers return to Times Square

A Nation of Millions

Hip-Hop Convention seeks answer to what's holding young America back

Listings

The Hiphop Soda Pop Shake-Up

Is Rap vs. Pepsi a New Step or 'Same Ole Two Step'?

Foucault's Turntable

Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

The Swami of Hip Hop

Russell Simmons Morphs Into a Mogul-Activist

Hip-Hop Hollas at City Hall

But Were They Really Saying Something?

No Masses, No Movement

Black Boomers Shout Reparations in the Court—But Go Silent in the 'Hood

Breakers: The Next Generation

In the Outer Boroughs, True Hip-Hop Dance Thrives

All Mixed Up

Music

Dreams of a Final Theory

Letters

Breaking's New Ground

Generation Next Spins on its Head