From the Bronx to billion-dollar boardrooms, rap has always been about taking chances. Hip-hop was born in the 1970s in the South Bronx, a place with few opportunities for young black and Latino ...

The event is scheduled to take place June 7 at Gun Hill Park on Magenta Street in the Bronx from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET.

Today we recognize the 68th birthday of one of Hip Hop’s foundational figures, Afrika Bambaataa—a man whose influence helped ...

On this day in 1955, Clive Campbell—better known to the world as DJ Kool Herc—was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At the age of 12, he relocated with his family to the Bronx, New York, where his influence ...

The new novel by Black 47 frontman Larry Kirwan, offers a searing, unfiltered portrait of Irish immigrant life in the Bronx ...

While the Bronx is known as the birthplace of Hip Hop, Elena Martinez also says it’s home to many other genres like traditional West African music and Latin jazz. Martinez is the Co-Artistic Director ...

While rap as a long and storied history in Black American heritage, one iconic sportsman of the 1960s has been credited with influencing the hip hop artform.

Fat Joe and Starz are teaming up once again for a series about the Bronx rapper’s life.

HIGHBRIDGE, The Bronx (PIX11) — Art versus advertising ... The Highbridge section of the borough is where hip hop began more than 50 years ago in the community room of an apartment building ...

MORRIS HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) -- A legal battle has ensued over artwork covering a sidewalk shed that is widely considered the birthplace of hip-hop. The New York City Department of Buildings ...

A legal battle has ensued over artwork covering a sidewalk shed that is widely considered the birthplace of hip-hop.