Hip-hop’s origin story — DJ Kool Herc’s 1973 Bronx dance party — channels a naturally visual mythos. In 1973, the world was still enthralled with disco, while Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, the Rolling ...

Hip Hop Film Festival’s 10th anniversary will spotlight Master Cyphers, a three-day Harlem series of film industry talks with a twist. The Hip Hop Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary by ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — You can kick it old school next Wednesday when the Neon hosts a special screening of the classic film “Beat Street.” After the film, producer/musician/Hip-Hop historian/educator ...

Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best soundtracks ...

Back in 1983, the Coolidge Corner Theatre was the first cinema outside of New York City to show “Wild Style,” the original (and some say still the best) hip-hop movie. However difficult it may be for ...

Nas revealed plans for a Broadway adaptation of the 1984 Hip-Hop classic “Beat Street” at the Tribeca Film Festival’s 40th-anniversary screening. Nas has announced the classic 1984 Hip-Hop film Beat ...

Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. When Hip-Hop was being passed off as a fad that wouldn’t last beyond “Rapper’s ...

When the culture of Hip Hop was only ten years in the making, this visual journey through all aspects of the culture was the blueprint of Hip Hop’s true roots Wild Style is arguably the very first ...

Now that 8 mile is going to be a series, we decided to look at the movies hip-hop heads and movie-goers alike are in love with. While movies such as Paid in Full, Belly, Friday, New Jack City, Menace ...

It’s hard to believe, but hip-hop has been around now for half a century. Back in August of 1973, in the Bronx, NY, DJ Kool Herc spun the same record on twin turntables to extend the song’s percussion ...