Then, the voice goes, “When you mess around in New York town, you go down with the disco chiba clown ... Another [memory] about hip-hop from the '70s was that we went to parties and danced.

says hip hop fills a void in the telling of the American story. "This is our art," he says. "This is urban folk art. Period." The roots go back to the late '70s and early '80s when disaffected ...

By Eric Renner Brown Many people who know Cymande, the genre-bending British band from the early ’70s, have their own Cymande origin story. For the director Tim MacKenzie-Smith, “it was a ...

Stylish, streetwise, effortlessly cool ... gave this art movement, his personal art movement, an appropriately warlike name: Ikonoklast Panzerism. An all-rounder in the early hip-hop scene ...

MANCHESTER, England—Basil Bellgrave, one half of British rap duo Pete & Bas, stalked the stage on a recent night here, riling up the crowd. “You need a lesson in being a man,” he spat ...

Fifty years into hip-hop ... playing disco records and kids were rolling around on the floor spinning on their heads," explains Shanté Paradigm Smalls, an associate professor of art and public ...

As of August 11 of this year, hip-hop has officially been around for 50 years. As one of the most global and mainstream genres of music nowadays, it’s clear to see that the vision for hip-hop in ...

Dallas’ Silver Skylarks give a master class on the topic on The Number One Set and Sound, a debut album fusing ‘60s soul, ‘70s funk and ‘90s hip-hop into one cohesive groove. The Skylarks ...

The 8-storey building is dazzling throughout, like walking through some odd concoction of a 70s disco and a 50s art brat gallery ... Keeping its cool amidst the ostentation is a trick the ...

The rap legends have now teamed up again for the single’s music video, which incorporates LL Cool J’s and Big Daddy Kane‘s iconic album art into ... called the hip-hop album, “still ...

The exhibition also includes a wall installation of more than 50 iconic album covers that Adams created for major Hip Hop artists such as Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy ...