History is made at night

Flyer for first 'National Hip Hop Championships' at the Rok Rok Club at Brixton Recreation Centre, 'the freshest most awesome pl...

Interesting short article on mid-1980s London pirate radio and hip-hop: Soul pirate on the air waves By Jaswinder Bancil (South London ...

The Acid House moment of the late 1980s, like the Punk moment a decade or so previously, is often presented as a kind of Year Zero where som...

Tone Loc's 1989 Funky Cold Medina is both an old skool rap pop classic and a slightly dubious paean to slipping an aphrodisiac into wom...

Controversy in the States about the participation of Common in a poetry night at the White House this week. The usual Fox News right wing p...

Hip hop has provided a voice for rebels in the recent uprisings in North Africa, notably in Tunisia . So perhaps not surprisingly other repr...

From Waayaha Cusub (from Reuters Nairobi, 9 April 2010): For centuries, Somalis used poetry and songs to pass protest messages to powerful r...

Last week I took part in Border Infection , an event at Goldsmiths in New Cross themed around borders, migration and creativity. My contribu...

It started in Los Angeles last summer and is now being touted as the new breakdancing. From Hip Hop's new steps , New York Times, 20 Nov...

Ras G hails from South Central Los Angeles via outer space and seems to be consciously placing himself in the afro-futurist tradition of S...

Woofah issue three has been out for a month now, but it's taken me a while to get round to reviewing it. If you haven’t seen previous i...

Some interesting reflections on tight trousers, masculinity and sexuality cropping up. The always excellent Pop Feminist has the remarkable...

Charles Donelan has sent in this fascinating questionnaire covering his dancing odyssey through some legendary clubs in New York and elsewhe...

Democracy and Hip Hop is an interesting project, with informed critical thinking of hip hop culture starting from the position that 'H...

From the film Beat Street (1984), filmed at the Roxy in New York.

Excellent BBC4 documentary this week. Once Upon a Time in New York: The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Funk was only an hour long when any of ...