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Life and Hip-Hop: No longer just writing on the wall, graffiti rises as a legitimate art form

The impact of music extends far beyond the play and pause buttons. Formed in the 1970s as an underground movement, hip-hop has expanded into various art forms and musical sub-genres – with rap ...
WHYY

Philly artists celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop

Philly rapper Reef the Lost Cauze poses for a photo. (Emily Neil/WHYY) Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a party thrown by DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx ignited a culture that has since spread throughout ...
CNN

Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...