In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

What were the most important albums in hip-hop history? Rap was different before that album — and afterwards, it was forever changed? Hip-hop started at block parties in the Bronx 50 years ago, but it ...

Here at AudioPhix, we write a lot of lists. That probably isn’t news to you. The internet lives on lists. They provoke, anger, and maybe sometimes even inform. If you’re like me, you usually just tune ...

Hip-hop is 50 years old. An official anniversary is coming next month, so we asked cultural critic Kiana Fitzgerald to identify some of the game-changing moments in hip-hop history. She starts with ...

What were the most important albums in hip-hop history? Rap was different before that album — and afterwards, it was forever changed? That's the question that Morning Edition posed to cultural critic ...