Hip-hop’s origin story — DJ Kool Herc’s 1973 Bronx dance party — channels a naturally visual mythos. In 1973, the world was still enthralled with disco, while Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, the Rolling ...

Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. When Hip-Hop was being passed off as a fad that wouldn’t last beyond “Rapper’s ...

Mr. Wave recalls growing up watching Michael Jackson’s “Dancing Machine” until he becomes a legend in the movie Beat Street. Before the internet, before TikTok trends, a Bronx kid made his body move ...

When director Rich Peppiatt first approached the three members of Kneecap, a Belfast hip-hip trio that raps in the Irish language, they weren’t sure what to make of his completely unsolicited pitch to ...

A few years ago I found myself listening to a studio chief expounding about how important it was for Hollywood to tap into the latest youth culture trend, or as he put it, “catch a wave before it hits ...

EXCLUSIVE: Affion Crockett (Wild ‘N Out, Black-ish) will produce and star in new comedy, A Hip Hop Story. The film also stars Cedric the Entertainer, Damaine Radcliff (Glory Road, Rambo: Last Blood), ...

Running from Aug. 19 through Aug. 23, the festival embraces the theme “5 Days of FRESH on the Hudson” as it expands across multiple venues in and around New York City. The primary hub will be LOOK ...

Wild Style is widely regarded as the first film to authentically capture the true essence of Hip-Hop. At a time when the culture was dismissed as a passing fad following the success of “Rapper’s ...