slick-rick-rap50-events.jpg DJ Cassidy's Pass The Mic Live! - Credit: Richard Bord/Getty Images Hip-hop turns 50 on Aug. 11, and it seems that the whole world is celebrating. From concerts organized ...

Tomorrow, Aug. 11, the hip-hop world will celebrate 50 years of rap music, five decades removed from DJ Kool Herc’s 1973 “Back To School Jam” in the South Bronx that helped to christen the genre.

Figuring out what counts as the alpha moment, the big bang explosion, that led to an entire, massive musical genre such as hip hop and rap is, at best, a speculative affair. Mostly, it’s a really good ...

This article has been handpicked to be included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. On Friday, August 11, 2023, anyone sufficiently ...

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Looking at the flier for what’s considered your first party is a trip. Across the top of what essentially looks like a weathered index card reads, “A DJ Kool Herc Party” written in block-lettered wild ...

It’s hard to believe it has only been 50 years since hip-hop was created in its homeland, Bronx, NY. The first ever hip-hop song has not been traced to one person, but is instead credited to several ...

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Music exec and Disturbing Tha Peace co-founder Chaka Zulu was honored at Hot 107.9's Birthday Bash for his contributions to ATL Hip-Hop. Introducing the Official 2025 Birthday Bash ATL Jersey (Sunrise ...

Treach from the hip-hop group Naughty by Nature, celebrated his 55th birthday with an appearance at Salsa Con Fuego.

On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw a party in the Bronx at their building—which is now a landmark—at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. Herc tried out a new technique where he rotated two ...

*One hundred stories in the sky at the famed Beyond the Edge in New York City, Biggie’s family and hip hop artists gathered to pay tribute to Christopher Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G. EURweb Spotlight ...