NEW YORK (WABC) -- KRS-One announced the star-studded guests who will be performing during the 50th anniversary event and the block party festival in celebration of all things hip hop. On a hot summer ...

Tune in to for a six-hour Twitch-based livestream party and hear from six DJs on June 20. It’s going down on the live stream this Friday as The Hip Hop Museum and “Queen of Street Literature,” Wahida ...

“This one requires my focus,” says Daveed Diggs, right before he lets off another furious torrent of dizzying technical rap. That statement demands a question: Did all his other furious torrents of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Fifty years ago today, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell organized a back-to-school jam in the Bronx. The block party would grow into the biggest thing in music since rock 'n’ roll — hip-hop.

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In August 1973, Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc, was DJing his sister’s back-to-school dance party in the Bronx. Campbell combined two turntables and a mixer to break the beats of songs — and, in the ...

Hip-hop has come a long way since DJ Kool Herc started isolating funk-record instrumental breaks to make Bronx dance parties even more danceable. Along the... Paradise Gray was a young boy growing up ...