Hip-hop is 50 years old. An official anniversary is coming next month, so we asked cultural critic Kiana Fitzgerald to identify some of the game-changing moments in hip-hop history. She starts with ...

He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into the mainstream. By Alex Williams J.B. Moore, an advertising man from ...

What were the most important albums in hip-hop history? Rap was different before that album — and afterwards, it was forever changed? Hip-hop started at block parties in the Bronx 50 years ago, but it ...

What were the most important albums in hip-hop history? Rap was different before that album — and afterwards, it was forever changed? That's the question that Morning Edition posed to cultural critic ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Kurtis Blow was the first rapper to ...