Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th birthday. It started with a back-to-school party on August 11, 1973, in The Bronx. Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, improvised and played snippets in a loop ...

Hip-hop is 50 years old, and over the last few decades the genre's created a long list of icons who've changed the face of music. It started in the Bronx, in New York, in August 1973, when funk ...

As New York City marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, NY1 delves into the history of the genre — and highlights hip-hop centric events happening around the five boroughs.

The Recording Academy, in a bold venture, undertook the colossal feat of paying tribute to 50 years of hip-hop's dynamic saga with the event titled "A GRAMMY Salute To 50 Years Of Hip-Hop." ...