It’s been 30 years since 1996. Feel old yet? Time has been passing at an alarmingly fast rate, to the point where foundational memories in our lives feel like yesterday. This feeling amplifies if ...

It’s easy to wonder what 90s hip-hop artists would sound like if they came out today. What would Tupac rap over if he were still alive? What does Illmatic sound like if Nas were depicting a more ...

Everyone calls the ’90s the Golden Age Hip-Hop. That’s cute—but it still feels like a lazy summary of a decade that completely rewrote the rules. Rap albums of the ’80s gave us the blueprint—Slick ...

Hip-hop might have been born in the '70s, but it was in the '90s when the genre truly started to see commercial success. It was an era in which artistic creativity expanded, rivalries emerged, pop ...

Inclusivity-minded dance and party crew celebrates its second anniversary, big boom-bap and local culture-bearers in tow.

Sampling is when an artist takes an existing recorded sound and adds it to a new recording. The original sound is oftentimes ...

Hip Hop Congress at UCLA is bringing more than music into the mix, celebrating the culture beyond the beats. In the ’90s, the ...

Crafting infectious hits that stay on repeat has evolved greatly in Hip-Hop’s 50 years of existence. Before we had drum machines, DJ Kool Herc unknowingly sparked a revolution while spinning records ...