Wild Style was voted one of the top ten rock n’ roll movies of all time by the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame, and VH1’s Hip Hop Honors acknowledged the film’s influence in Hip Hop with a ...

Old-School Fans Celebrate Hip-Hop’s 50th A nostalgic crowd turned out to see an all-star lineup on Friday at Yankee Stadium, not far from the genre’s birthplace.

The erasure of acts from hip-hop's earliest era -- and the stigma of "old-school hip-hop" as a blanket term -- has hurt hip-hop's canonization. By Stereo Williams The BET Hip-Hop Awards are still ...

Classic hip-hop radio also hasn’t been a sustainable format in the same way that classic rock has remained for decades — and with younger fans getting their music on-demand via streaming ...

LA's hip-hop stations no longer even regularly play local music — save for KDAY, which died and was resurrected two decades later as a classic hip-hop shrine. The soil has become too expensive.

Hip-hop wasn’t so much of a solution as it was a necessary release. For new fans looking to connect with the genre, The Root has assembled a list of 10 classic hip-hop albums for beginners.