On this date six years ago, the graffiti world and the entire Hip Hop community lost one of its most influential pioneers. Michael Lawrence Marrow, better known as True Mathematics Allah and globally ...

Hip hop history is so important to both artists and fans. In fact, "knowledge" is one of the so-called five pillars of hip-hop. The others are MCing, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti. Kemberly ...

The memoir examines how Freddy helped bridge the worlds of graffiti art, music, film, and fashion during hip-hop’s formative years. Hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy recently appeared in Atlanta for a ...

Art is what Cey Adams has been producing since he was a teenager growing up in Queens. But, it wasn’t always seen that way. “That's the problem with labels. If there was no such thing as graffiti, ...

As director of the first hip-hop movie, “Wild Style,” Charlie Ahearn needed a fresh way to brand his indie film to appeal to a world that wasn’t yet hip to the cultural movement, born in the South ...

Gaming and hip-hop were developing alongside each other long before they became as big as they are now. Both gave people a ...

The pioneering rap artist Grandmaster Flash put it succinctly: “Fab was the liaison between whites downtown and this Black culture in the Bronx”—a cross-pollinator adept at bringing creative ...

Hip-hop is one of the musical cultures currently enjoyed around the world. Developed primarily in the United States, hip-hop ...

A vivid mural meant to honor Hip-Hop’s birthplace at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue has sparked a legal clash between city officials and the property’s ownership group, Workforce Housing. The graffiti ...

When J. Edson “House” Magaña moved to Phoenix in 1990 he was 17, alone and hoping for a fresh start away from the gang violence engulfing his Chicago neighborhood. He hated Phoenix at first. All he ...

As Wilmington wrestles with gun violence, an unlikely Public Enemy may offer a timely message of support in the city this fall. Here's what to know ...