Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Producers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of house ...

Hip-hop has always been loud on the surface. Heavy drums, bold hooks, statements that refuse to whisper. Yet beneath that ...

Perhaps more than any other style of music, hip-hop songs are best to dance to. In fact, when hip-hop was invented, there were five tenets to the art form, from lyricism to DJing to dancing. So, ...

AND DAVID BOWIE TEAMED UP TO RELEASE UNDER PRESSURE. THE SONG WOULD MAKE A COMEBACK IN 1990 AS THE SAMPLE UNDER VANILLA ICE’S HIT SONG, ICE ICE BABY, LOCALLY, 1981 WAS MARKED BY THE FOUNDING OF THE ...

Hip hop/rap is a culture that changed the world, a culture created and perfected by Black and brown Americans.

Montsho Eshe grew up in Southwest Atlanta, a child of dance. Her first teacher was her mother, Billie Ann Gaither, who in the 1960s opened the Gaither School of Dance, one of the first Black-owned ...

(THE CONVERSATION) There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. At this year’s awards, taking place on Feb. 2, ...