On March 7, 1987, the Beastie Boys' record-breaking debut album Licensed To Ill became the first-ever hip-hop album to chart ...

Born in the Bronx during social and economic struggle, hip hop turned protest into creativity and grew into a worldwide ...

Thirty five years later, Life Of A Kid In The Ghetto still resonates as both a time capsule of early nineties Hip Hop and a ...

The Roots Released Their Fourth LP 'Things Fall Apart' 27 Years Ago The Roots 'Things Fall Apart' 27 Years Ago ...

The Hip Hop Museum is proud to highlight two Black History Month initiatives that underscore its commitment to ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...

For over 50 years, Hip-Hop has gifted the culture as we know it with a great deal. Not only has the genre introduced us to world-class talent, often taking up space in our hearts and memories, but ...

Seven albums. One culture. Infinite impact. An onslaught of Hip-Hop “Mount Rushmores ” has recently flooded social media and various internet spaces to continue the never-ending debate of “the best.” ...

Rapper Chuck D, of Public Enemy fame, is one of several who agree that basketball greats and hip-hop excellence share a similar foundation.

Most people would never put Shakespeare and Kendrick Lamar in the same sentence. One composed sonnets for the Elizabethan ...

LL Cool J, a pioneering figure in hip-hop, is set to take viewers on a captivating journey through the genre’s roots with the new docuseries Hip Hop Was Born Here. This five-part series, co-created ...