"Our intention was to show how much we loved the category of old school hip hop because it greatly influences our music," said Julie, Natty, Belle and Haneul Jack Irvin has over five years of ...

All the merch pieces and magazine covers.” When Conduit first started releasing music around four years ago, he found it difficult to find venues that aligned with his old-school take on hip-hop.

The apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx is unremarkable, except for its place in history. It is where, at parties in the 1970s with a resident named Clive Campbell running the ...

On the heels of his brilliant fourth album Music Can Hear Us, the German producer reflects on how Daft Punk, Public Enemy, ...

Additionally, some Hip-Hop YouTube series entertain and educate new and old fans alike (e.g., DJ Premier’s So Wassup and ...

Hip-hop has evolved from its humble beginnings in the Bronx during the 1970s to become one of the most influential cultural movements worldwide.

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Lawrence ...

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 ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

Z, these rappers fit their Hogwarts houses perfectly. But only one house has what is needed to fly away with the Quidditch ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate ...