Hip-Hop music, or to use the more popular marketing term, Rap music, was the most popular, influential, and controversial form of black and Latino urban popular music throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It emerged in the early to mid-1970s in the Bronx,...

Hip hop (also spelled hip-hop or hiphop) is both a cultural movement and a genre of music developed in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly by African Americans and Latinos.[1] Since first emerging in the Bronx, the lifestyle of hip hop culture has...

A major thread running through the festival is hip-hop especially in producing cutting edge documentaries collected by the Hip-Hop Association. Hip-hop is a resonating theme in BIFF 06 as illustrated by the choice of closing night film - the London premier of Life...

With hip-hop, champagne sparkles By TONYA JAMESON Knight Ridder Newspapers Monday, January 5, 2004 Charlotte, N.C. -- Ja Rule's "Clap Back" blares inside club H20, where Jolae Smith sips champagne near the dance floor. Smith, 22, takes several sips before...

It’s a sunny, breezy, spring day in New York City on the Upper West Side. Sonyetta Hilton, 17, a Brooklyn resident, dressed in a black Lacrosse shirt (collar popped), Antik jeans, and Prada shoes, wears her hair fashionably swooped to the side. She ambles unenthusiastically...

Written and illustrated by Ahmed Hoke, @Large spawned from a fusion for his love for hip hop and manga, as well as from his life while growing up in Southern California during the 80s. Essentially, Hoke and TOKYOPOP are breaking new ground in the manga...

Hip hop culture has a major contribution to the trends in the 21st century. An element is usually create when the hip hop "sight is applied to a subject or object. Presently hip hop's element are Breakin', Graffiti art, Deejayin', Beatboxin', street lanuage and street fashion.