Tag: HipHop

Calendar Feedback: Elvis Presley, ‘Oppenheimer’ and hip-hop

[ad_1] Aug. 18, 2023 11:30 AM PT Long live Elvis Presley Elvis Presley, rightly called the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, is a gift to music that keeps on giving [“When Elvis got real gone again,” Aug. 15] . His voice resonates with musical acumen and his charisma is immeasurable. Whatever controversies may surround the… Continue reading Calendar Feedback: Elvis Presley, ‘Oppenheimer’ and hip-hop

Column: For 50 years, hip-hop music has provided a way for Black men to express creativity and vulnerability

[ad_1] It’s a strange feeling having your “Day Ones” — the people who believed in you before you believed in yourself — not be around to see how the story is going. I doubt I would have gotten into college without my Aunt Ethel Lee’s support. Sadly, she suffered a stroke my freshman year and… Continue reading Column: For 50 years, hip-hop music has provided a way for Black men to express creativity and vulnerability

The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Hip-Hop 50’s Yankee Stadium Celebration

[ad_1] To see hip-hop today is to see a genre that rose from the depths of despair in the Bronx into a global cultural behemoth. That makes Yankee Stadium — which sits less than two miles from where DJ Kool Herc unofficially gave birth to rap at a 1973 party — the ideal locale to celebrate… Continue reading The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Hip-Hop 50’s Yankee Stadium Celebration

Hip-hop dancers at world championship talk breakdancing at Olympics

[ad_1] As hip-hop turns 50 on Friday, one of its pillars, breakdancing, was on display last weekend in Phoenix at the World Hip Hop Dance Championship. The event featured 3,000 dancers from at least 37 countries. In multiple ballrooms at the Arizona Grand Resort and Spa, international dance stars taught classes and routines, dancers practiced… Continue reading Hip-hop dancers at world championship talk breakdancing at Olympics

The year Outkast and Atlanta took over hip-hop

[ad_1] In 1995, Outkast’s André 3000 and Big Boi walked onstage at the second Source Awards at New York City’s Paramount Theater, where the Atlanta duo had just been awarded best new group of the year by the influential rap magazine. The crowd, composed mostly of New York and L.A. rap cognoscenti who had invented… Continue reading The year Outkast and Atlanta took over hip-hop

Hip-Hop Turns Fifty | The New Yorker

[ad_1] Alex BaraschCulture editor Last week, like innumerable others who contributed to “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” ’s collective, astonishing one billion dollars and counting at the box office, I assembled a group of people brave—or foolhardy—enough to undertake the double feature. Several of them hadn’t known one another beforehand; afterward, as we discovered that we were… Continue reading Hip-Hop Turns Fifty | The New Yorker