Dan Charnas, author of the The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop explains ... marketing and turning artist merchandise into fashion lines. In such an infant industry, everything ...

Join us as we recount the history of hip-hop’s journey from the fringes of fashion to becoming its favored collaborator and muse. Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our Partners ...

Dancers would get up during the breaks and perform a highly gymnastic style of dance using head and back-spinning. They became known as breakdancers. Early hip-hop was performed live, usually at ...

The result is “Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop.” In hip-hop fashion, the book's title is a play on words. Before digital photography, a contact sheet was the photographer's working ...

The result is “Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop.” In hip-hop fashion, the book's title is a play on words. Before digital photography, a contact sheet was the photographer's working ...

Back in 2008, when Jay Z (above) was announced as the Saturday headliner, Noel Gallagher famously told BBC News, “I’m not having hip hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.” Then, this year ...

Method Man creates a dark anti-hero on this album who hungers for the career of wack rappers and perpetrators. It was truly a ...