The Rock the Bells Festival, presented LL Cool J showcased some of the genre’s best from the 1980s and 1990s at Prudential Center in Newark.

If you listened to hip-hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was all about Eric B. & Rakim. The New York-based duo was known for their unique sound, which was the perfect blend of DJ Eric B ...

Then, the Hip-Hop audience and its artists are aging, too. Plain and simple. When it was born on August 11, 1973, in the Bronx, Hip-Hop was a party thrown by young people [no “old people ...

Breakdancing, graffiti art, and the unmistakable beats of hip-hop took center stage at the inaugural San Francisco Hip Hop Festival this weekend, as artists and fans gathered at The Midway in Bayview ...

Hip hop was coming up as a scene and genre during the tail end of the decade, and Killer Mike explains that it was when hip hop “didn’t have rules.” If he’d been an artist during the ...

For rapper Killer Mike, the ’80s was the most impactful decade of sound. Sitting down with SPIN and Bose as part of our Decades of Sound collaboration, Killer Mike shares his thoughts on the ...