For several years, music historians have considered this, the consecration of rap on mainstream music charts, the watershed moment in modern music, marking the death of hard rock and the dawn of a ...

Dusty Henry of KEXP's 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast explores a groundbreaking innovation by 12-year-old Theodore Livingston, aka Grand Wizzard Theodore. This year, NPR, along with member stations, has ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

In 50 years, rap transformed the English language, bringing the Black vernacular’s vibrancy to the world. “Dave, the dope fiend shootin’ dope.” — Slick Rick, “Children’s Story” (1988) “Dopeman, ...