Rolling Stone

50 Years Later, Is Hip-Hop Still Radical?

It’s an afternoon in July 2023, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in his element. Standing at a podium at the foot of the marble staircase in New York’s City Hall, the Mayor is flanked by staffers ...
Moviefone

Sia - Live At The Red Bull Sound Space (2015)

Sia's music combines a soulful mix of electronic, hip-hop, and power ballad that has a way of working its way into your head and taking up long term residence. Join her for an exclusive live set at ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Chronicling Hip-Hop’s 45-Year Ascendance as a Musical, Cultural and Social Phenom

The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap tracks the evolution of the genre from its music to its culture and to its people. "Everything that is part of hip-hop," says the Smithsonian's Dwandalyn ...
CNN

Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...
NPR

In 1977, a 12-year-old invented record scratching and changed hip-hop forever

Dusty Henry of KEXP's 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast explores a groundbreaking innovation by 12-year-old Theodore Livingston, aka Grand Wizzard Theodore. This year, NPR, along with member stations, has ...