It’s been over 40 years since my introduction to hip-hop. We were born on opposite ends of the country, but the instant connection I had to this art form is a testament to the genre’s transcendent ...

The impact of music extends far beyond the play and pause buttons. Formed in the 1970s as an underground movement, hip-hop has expanded into various art forms and musical sub-genres – with rap ...

Her mother got her into art. Hip Hop got her into graffiti. The first time I speak to Kajal Singh, she strikes me as a shy girl. One of the first female graffiti artists in India, who goes by the ...

On this date six years ago, the graffiti world and the entire Hip Hop community lost one of its most influential pioneers. Michael Lawrence Marrow, better known as True Mathematics Allah and globally ...

“Since graffiti first broke out, NYPD has always had some form of the Vandal Squad. There were transit cops for a minute too, but in the late 80s or early 90s the city dropped them. The Vandal Squad ...

Zephyr, Janette Beckman – Run DMC, New York City, 1986. As graffiti writers rose to prominence during the early 1970s, hip hop was a logical partner. With similar identities in the same culture, it ...

A master videotape of a television dance and music show Graffiti Rock and the Hip Hop World hosted by Michael Holman. The video features performances by Run D.M.C., Shannon, Kool Moe Dee, Special K, ...

Burlington police have identified a graffiti suspect who is accused of tagging multiple locations at an elementary school.Police said they first thought the graffiti represented incorrectly drawn ...

BEIRUT (AP) — In a red-lit bar in Beirut, Nasser Shorbaji and Marwan Alameh try not to knock the microphones over while laughing during the broadcast of their weekly radio show. Moments later, they ...

The dentist’s drill. The garbage truck. Simulating the Texas Chainsaw Massacre in a slaughterhouse. Pretty unpleasant noises. And then there’s rap music. Most New Yorkers caught the first strains of ...

Words written by Hip-Hop Chess Federation founder, Adisa Banjoko. Weap·on·ize, v. — To convert or to use an item as a weapon. When Straight Outta Compton came out I did not watch it because of the ...

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