For a generation that gets its music videos from YouTube and the like, it’s hard to conceive of a time when your options in that regard were far, far fewer. In December 1983, “Uncle” Ralph McDaniels, ...

On this date in 1995, the Hip Hop community lost one of its most beloved and innovative figures when Fat Boys legend Darren Robinson, known worldwide as the Human Beat Box, passed away from a heart ...

Ralph McDaniels popularized the shout-out. His show Video Music Box debuted in 1983 on the New York television station WNYC-TV and airs to this day on WNYE-TV, making it the longest-running music ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...

Amer Ahmed, a longtime board member at the Hip Hop Congress, found the concept of American Indian hip-hop strikingly unfamiliar. Last November, Ahmed, director of intercultural affairs at Concordia ...

The MTV show Yo! MTV Raps helped bring hip-hop into mainstream American culture in the 1980s and was made by a scrappy team in the face of a skeptical corporate network. For Jeffrey Allen Townes, the ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

Hip-hop, which emerged from the streets of New York City in the late 1970s, has grown into a global cultural phenomenon. Its influence extends far beyond its own genre, permeating various musical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VJ Ralph McDaniels at work lining up a music video for his show, "Video Music Box" on WNYC-TV on January 7, 1988, in New York City ...