"I'm just a study of hip-hop," the Atlanta legend tells PEOPLE in celebration of hip-hop's 50th anniversary this month Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at ...

They created a cartoon called "Stroke Ain't No Joke ... knows it goes far beyond those three elements. Young people are drawn to hip-hop because of its themes that highlight common experiences ...

Here are some of the most iconic moments in hip-hop fashion history Rebecca Aizin is an Associate Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on ...

But that's not actually the full story of queer people in hip-hop. They've been at the forefront and in the underground innovating the genre since it started. Back in hip-hop's adolescence ...

“People have spent time bobbing their heads to our stories of this despair and not seeing it as a call to action,” said Michael Ford, the self-proclaimed “Hip Hop Architect” who designed ...

How the wave of art, music, fashion and more came to be called "hip-hop" is a blurry. There are plenty of people, Carson says, who have tried to pin down where the term came from. "Many folks make ...

There, Herc came up with an innovative approach on the turntables that allowed him to isolate and repeat the musical breaks on records that got people dancing. Over those breaks, he and a friend ...

More than any other platform or outlet, hip-hop conveyed the frustrations, hopes, ambitions, and fears of a set of people who came of age amid the scourges of crack and AIDS and the generally ...

Hip-hop gives a voice to marginalized people everywhere who feel like they’re being oppressed or ignored by society, he says. And he says people without resources to play instruments or money ...