Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the '80s, hip-hop hit the mainstream, and it's stayed there in the decades since. When hip-hop emerged, it had an urgency and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx. But here, too, hip-hop happened.

Q. Something that struck me was how in that nascent moment for the culture, you see magazines like The Source in their formative phases, when they were really just fan-driven, do-it-yourself ...

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th birthday. It started with a back-to-school party on August 11, 1973, in The Bronx. Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, improvised and played snippets in a loop on ...

On August 11, 1973, hip-hop was born, changing music and popular culture forever. But in each decade since, the genre has been distinct, with its own style, stars and sounds. In honor of hip-hop’s ...

Before the Grammys, the Pulitzer, and the global arena tours, Kendrick Lamar was just a sharp-tongued kid out of Compton, speaking truth over soulful, left-field beats. On July 2, 2011, he gave the ...

What started out as a family tradition turned into a priority when Robert Gunn, owner of ILLY’S Fire Pizza, lost his job working for a telephone company. Robert owns the ‘80s-’90s hip hop-themed pizza ...

In the summer of 1973, block parties were taking over New York’s Bronx borough as Black and brown youth were coming together to celebrate culture, community and a new genre of music: hip-hop. Born as ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, KQED’s year-long exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history. n 1990, three years before she asked the world “Who you callin’ a bitch?” on her breakout ...