J. Cole, born Jermaine Lamarr Cole in 1985 on a German military base and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is ...

Boosie Badazz, born Torence Hatch Jr. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a Southern rapper celebrated for raw, autobiographical storytelling. Emerging ...

YFN Lucci, born Rayshawn Bennett in Atlanta, is a rapper known for blending melody and lyricism into a distinctive singing-rapping ...

The Black Spades were one of the largest Bronx street gangs of the early 1970s, born from the borough's economic ...

DMC, born Darryl McDaniels in Queens, is a co-founder of Run-DMC, the trailblazing group that pushed hip-hop into the mainstream. ...

Charlie Ahearn is the filmmaker behind Wild Style, the 1982 movie that first documented hip-hop culture on screen. Immersed in ...