A legal fight is brewing in the Bronx over a graffiti mural honoring the birthplace of hip-hop. City officials say the mural ...

NYC's DOB fined a building for a mural they claim advertises, sparking a legal battle over art and city rules at hip-hop's ...

While rap as a long and storied history in Black American heritage, one iconic sportsman of the 1960s has been credited with influencing the hip hop artform.

The festival promises to highlight all five elements of hip-hop: rap, breakdancing, DJing, fashion, and graffiti. Ekongot emphasized that hip-hop is more than just music; “It’s culture ...

It does have plenty of rap music in it, but it’s primarily a movie about bombing, a.k.a graffiti art. There’s also breakdancing in it, and honestly, if you were to ask me what hip-hop actually ...

We’d ride around bumping Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, Big L, Big Pun, LL Cool J… He used to do graffiti, breakdance—he lived that early Hip-Hop life. One day, I wrote a rap in my room, showed it ...

“However, hip hop is a movement with great cultural contributors across many creative disciplines, including graffiti. From Joe Conzo who photographed the early Bronx jams to Cey Adams who art ...

At the same event, people began to improvise rhymes over DJ Kool Herc’s music, creating rap, an acronym for rhythm and poetry. In addition to music, hip-hop encompasses artistic expressions through ...