Modern graffiti's writing culture began in Philadelphia in the 1960s, before New York's subway era. Writers like Cornbread transformed simple...

Roxanne Shante, born Lolita Gooden in the Queensbridge projects, was a teenage battle-rap prodigy and one of hip-hop's first prominent...

Tyler, the Creator, born Tyler Gregory Okonma, is a rapper, producer, and designer who co-founded the Odd Future collective. Emerging...

Nas and Amy Winehouse shared a warm artistic kinship rooted partly in their birthdays: both were born on September 14,...

B.G., born Christopher Dorsey in New Orleans, is a rapper who signed to Cash Money Records at age 12 and...