PEOPLE spoke with several influential artists and newcomers about hip-hop's biggest milestone to date, 50 years after it was born in the Bronx Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Hip-hop culture penetrates every aspect of people's lives ... Drawing inspiration from Chubby Checker, James Brown, and cartoons, Boogaloo Sam actualized this new form of movement.

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 ...

"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 ...

We're commemorating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this week. Next ... wrote the music for and voiced the main character of the Cartoon Network animated series "Class Of 3000." ...

People have birthdays and anniversaries. But how is it that hip-hop, an art form that has helped influence so much of pop culture in the United States and around the world, can trace its history ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Lucky me,” Nas says when I mention that he’s never lived in a world without hip-hop. At 49 years old ... it to have some respect from the people that I grew up listening to or open up ...

Hip-hop was born at a birthday party in the Bronx, a neglected part of a neglected city. The music and culture that emerged were shaped by the unique mix of Black and Puerto Rican people pushed ...