Rap and hip-hop pioneer dead at 64: ‘RIP my brother’

Keith Caesar, best known as Keith Keith of the Funky 4+1, died recently. He was 64. News 12 The Bronx reported his death and ...
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From Emerald Street Boys to Sir Mix-A-Lot, walk Seattle's hip-hop history

Seattle hip-hop artists paid homage to the city in their work. A new walking map explores some of the places central to the ...
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Old heads vs. young blood: ‘Old in the Game’ explores aging in hip-hop

In 2023, the United States celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, the global cultural and music genre created by young artists like 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc and 14-year-old Grand Wizard Theodore ...
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LISTEN: Josh Knowles Blurs the Line Between Classical and Electronic Music on “Chairs”

Josh Knowles is kicking off a new chapter with “Chairs,” a dark and gritty electronic single that pulls from industrial house ...

Ice Cube Gets His Own Permanent Sculpture In Richmond

Ice Cube's iconic Compton image gets immortalized in ceramic at Virginia's premier art museum through Roberto Lugo's ...
The Source

The Hip Hop Museum Celebrates Hip Hop 53: Bridging Legacy with the Next Generation of the Culture

On the heels of hip-hop’s 53rd birthday, The Hip Hop Museum gathered generations of the culture at Aura 57 in New York City for Hip Hop 53: Bridging Legacy with the Next Generation of the Culture. The ...
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Tom Hardy Just Teamed up With These 90s Hip-Hop Legends for a New Mixtape

One of the best working actors in Hollywood just made an entire underground hip-hop album with one of the best rappers of the ...
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How The Illharmonic's mix of hip-hop and classical builds community, one show at a time

Vocalist and composer Jeffrey McNeill says it was back in 1987, when he was still a kid, when he first started hearing the links between hip-hop and classical music. "I was put in flute and piano ...