Founded in 2005, Riot Fest is an independent music festival featuring the best of punk, rock 'n' roll, hip hop, metal, alternative, and just about everything in between. Founder Riot Mike is ...

LL COOL J returns to NYC to explore hip-hop's roots in new docuseries Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's ...

The start of hip-hop dates to Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc created continuous break-beats by working two turntables during a party in a rec room at 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, The New York Times asked the poet Mahogany L. Browne to write an ode to the genre using only lyrics.