n July 29, 2012, a family function was born on the patio of San Francisco’s El Rio. Rapper MicahTron, who grew up in Hunters Point, struck a pose onstage in a silk bomber jacket, encouraging an ...

In a landscape where artistry often gets boxed in, Jetty Chow refuses to play by the rules. He’s not just another rapper chasing streams — he’s a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and performer whose ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...