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A docu-drama digs deep into the origins of hip-hop, which turned 50 this week, while BBC Sounds deciphers Madonna’s success. Plus: an anti-LGBT witch-hunt in 1950s America

Music historians agree that the birth of hip-hop culture happened on 11 August 1973 in an apartment in the Bronx, a New York City borough. Since then, the movement has gone through five decades of intense renewal and influenced a plethora of musicians around the world – including in France.

Remember the first rap song you heard

The best pop documentaries to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV Plus and more.

Let’s try something new this summer.

Hailed as the genre’s Forrest Gump for his time with artists from Busta Rhymes to Santana, today Ross contends that streaming, sampling and materialism have changed the genre beyond recognition

SAN DIEGO — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Chuck D will make a double impact at the 122nd annual NAMM Show, which runs Thursday through Sunday at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Hip-hop became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history, and now Public Enemy’s Chuck D has committed himself to explore its origins

Plus, Chuck D will be on hand to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop

LOS ANGELES — Ice-T’s reputation as an O.G. original gangster is now set in stone — in the form of a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The rapper and actor was honored with a recording industry star Friday, the walk’s 2,747th, at 7065 Hollywood Blvd.

The legendary rapper on politics, his Top 5 songs and PBS series "Fight The Power: How Hip-Hop Changed The World"