This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the needle hit the records on DJ Kool Herc's turntable, launching hip-hop's start 50 years ago, the sound pushed a new ...

Stacker compiled a list of 26 style trends that originated or were popularized in hip-hop with the help of The Museum at FIT and other sources. - Noam Galai // Getty Images Stacker compiled a list of ...

If clothes make the man, do tight clothes make the man a homosexual? A Brooklyn-based rap group thinks the current trend in hip-hop—medium tees and sagging jeans cinched tightly below the hips—is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Raekwon - Credit: Danny Hastings* Hip-hop is no longer solely youth culture; it’s just culture, with cross-generational scenes ...

At an opening for a new exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, attendees embraced a musical fashion history. Peter Wright, who goes by Souleo, and Beau McCall, right, at the ...

The third in a series of Retropolis stories looking back at moments in hip-hop history during the week of the music genre’s 50th anniversary. What ended as the day that hip-hop was born began hours ...

Latto Defends Sexual Lyrics and Risqué Clothes in Hip-Hop: ‘That to Me is the Entertainment of Female Rap’ The '777' artist gave more insight into the struggles she's faced in the male-dominated space ...

Hip-hop is no longer solely youth culture; it's just culture, with cross-generational scenes full of artists intent on capturing their era's zeitgeist. But Raekwon The Chef's latest solo album, The ...