Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height ...

The story of hip-hop’s beginnings has been highly contested, but it begins in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc’s sister, Cindy, is hosting a back-to-school party in their apartment complex, ...

It's impossible to overlook hip-hop's profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...

Chuck D said for Hip-Hop to live on for another 50 years, “we got to recognize the world too,” and said the future lies in Africa. Chuck D is reflecting on the history of Hip-Hop and its worldwide ...

UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies launched its wide-ranging Hip Hop Initiative on March 28, which will establish UCLA as a leading center for hip-hop studies globally by way ...

For the first time in its 15-year history, the Hennessy Cypher features two Francophone African talents, as six of the ...

From the early seventies’ Bloc Parties in the Bronx to musicians streaming songs to audiences worldwide, today’s hip hop scene is borderless. But for the African artists making waves worldwide, ...

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...

Scoop Makhathini criticises the SA hip-hop scene's opportunism, reflecting on his isolation during tough times and stirring ...

(Left) Wall of Respect, Chicago, Illinois, 1967, Photograph by Roy Lewis. Gift of Roy Lewis Archives 1967, Copyright Roy Lewis (Right) Tupac memorial mural on Houston ...

In an era where South African hip-hop is increasingly shaped by global sounds, K.Keed and Orish's latest project, Umgaranto II, focuses on documenting the people, places, and culture that shaped them, ...

(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...