Today, the culture salutes one of Hip Hop’s most powerful and influential voices, Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, better known to the world as Chuck D. The legendary frontman of Public Enemy turns 65 today ...

Today, the sound is a recurring feature in hip-hop—overindexed in West Coast beats—though it’s found in songs produced across the world. Though it’s most known for its appearance on ...

The primordial essence If you grew up in Los Angeles during the '90s, you could teleport to the dawn of West Coast hip-hop through a simple twist of the dial. In the years before the '96 ...

Hip-hop has impacted everything: Art, culture, fashion, community, social justice, politics, sports, business. This year is being marked as a 50th anniversary ...