“De La Calle,” a new docuseries on Paramount+, explores the depth and evolution of Latin music on a global scale. The series also examines the connection between Latinx people and hip-hop. Nick Barili ...

Last year, Bad Bunny's "Un Verano Sin Ti" became the first non-English language album to top the Billboard 200. The Puerto Rican Latin trap and reggaetonero also became the most streamed artist on ...

Sampling originated from DJ Kool Herc's Merry-Go-Round technique. Over time, the technique evolved and has created hip-hop songs with ties that go back decades. The legal battles with clearing samples ...

As a documentarian, writer, and the host of the web series “Instant Vintage,” Tyron de Harlem is a journalist driven by his mission to preserve the history and culture of hip-hop, while showcasing the ...

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 ...

On Saturday, July 20, 2024, Pitchfork Music Festival launched its second day of festivities. Among all the great artists who were on the bill, the most anticipated easily had to be the rap group De La ...

A Schoolhouse Rock sample is not what you'd expect to hear from a hip-hop group, but De La Soul has never played by the rules. After an excruciatingly long wait, all of their albums are finally ...

“The Message” is often credited with stretching what hip-hop could be — not just party music but also social commentary. Big Daddy Kane, Daddy-O of Stetsasonic and longtime hip-hop promoter Charlie ...

In 1991, only one album into its career, De La Soul tried to pull off an unusually audacious move. The hip-hop trio’s 1989 debut, 3 Feet High and Rising, was a dense but accessible bricolage of ...