Like grunge, hip-hop spent years on the sidelines. Here Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain names hia favourite LP from the genre's ...

It was 1979 when The Sugar Hill Gang released "Rapper's Delight," a song widely considered to be the first hip-hop track. But hip-hop's history stretches back much further than Wonder Mike uttering ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...

The roots of hip-hop might be firmly planted at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx, but its branches clearly extend into North Jersey. On Aug. 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new while ...

Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Today that party is considered by many "the birth of hip-hop." SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Hip-hop has a big birthday next ...

Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre, maybe it would be. But the history of rap LPs is so rich and varied, we were ...