Any conversation regarding the historical context of rap music will almost certainly rely heavily on the near ritualistic practice of sampling, essentially using older songs as the basis as the basis ...

Hip hop sneakers were never just footwear. From early block parties to worldwide fame, shoes like Superstars, Air Force 1s, Vans, Converse, and Jordans became symbols of identity, status, creativity, ...

Forty years after its birth, hip-hop is everywhere, a global signifier of youthfulness and subversion and opulence and Americanness and blackness and menace, sometimes all at once. But for all the ...

"I realized I had the lost Dead Sea Scrolls of hip-hop photography," says Joe Conzo, who captured this moment in the culture's primordial days. As hip-hop was first blooming, with small steps, into ...