This year, NPR, along with member stations, has been marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. One of those stations, KEXP in Seattle, has been celebrating with a weekly podcast, 50 Years Of Hip-Hop.

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

Back in the mid-1980s, when the world was just beginning to recognize rap music as an art form that might have some legs, one of the biggest draws on Boston’s underground scene was a DJ who had an ...

Though the duo of MC and DJ complement one another’s abilities, upon further inspection, they basically use different methods ...

Hip-Hop and the Grammy Awards have had one of the strangest relationships. Although rappers know that the Grammys aren’t the end all, be all, when it comes to judging Hip-Hop, nobody will ever deny ...

In his last documentary, Hype, director Doug Pray traced the rise and fizzle of the Seattle music scene, teeming as it was with rock-star personalities. With Scratch, however, the action is a little ...

This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

Hip hop has evolved into a powerful tool for promoting wellness and community empowerment, particularly for marginalized communities facing barriers to traditional mental health care, as evidenced by ...

Dusty Henry of KEXP's 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast explores a groundbreaking innovation by 12-year-old Theodore Livingston, aka Grand Wizzard Theodore. This year, NPR, along with member stations, has ...