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Rhythm at the root: The communal and audible lineage of hip-hop's music

While hip-hop is continuously in a state of innovation, early on its ear for music was attached to the sounds its earliest listeners enjoyed partying to.
NPR

50 years of hip-hop: A genre born from a backyard party

Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Today that party is considered by many "the birth of hip-hop." SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Hip-hop has a big birthday next ...
Newsweek

The 50 Moments That Defined Hip-Hop, in Photos

It was 1979 when The Sugar Hill Gang released "Rapper's Delight," a song widely considered to be the first hip-hop track. But hip-hop's history stretches back much further than Wonder Mike uttering ...
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How Rochester’s Blanche and Cab Calloway helped invent the DNA of hip hop

When people trace hip hop’s origin story, they usually go straight to the Bronx: those fabled block parties, the breakbeats ...
Rolling Stone

50 Years Later, Is Hip-Hop Still Radical?

It’s an afternoon in July 2023, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in his element. Standing at a podium at the foot of the marble staircase in New York’s City Hall, the Mayor is flanked by staffers ...