Kendrick Lamar and SZA lived up to the massive hype when the 2025 Grand National Tour hit State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. It was brilliant.

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Kendrick Lamar and SZA lived up to the massive hype when the 2025 Grand National Tour hit State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ.

Despite suffering a rehearsal injury that required stitches, J. Lo’s 2025 AMAs performance didn’t slow down a bit.

Before there was Fat Joe, Big Pun or Biggie, there were The Fat Boys. The Brooklyn-born friends parlayed a win at a rap contest in the 1980s into a record deal, movie roles, and even an appearance ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

There’s a clear focus on lyrics — a big criteria for me, as a hip-hop head born in the ’80s — and beats that could, at the right volumes, knock the silver fillings right out of your teeth.

Beyond the eroticism and nods to classic Japanese cinema, “Touch Me” also includes another unexpected delight: Several ’80s hip-hop-inspired dance numbers. Dance is an obsession of Brian’s ...

This quirk of economics, geography, and technology would not only vibrate across the island but, by the 1970s and ’80s, across the ... to in-the-street, hip-hop DJing. Kool Herc was born Clive ...

What began as an outlet and form of reprieve from the daily socio-economic struggles of Black and brown youth in the Bronx in the 1970s and '80s has ... teaching of hip-hop dances — including ...