New York (AFP) – Five decades after a Bronx block party ushered in hip-hop's 'Big Bang' moment, the culture-shifting genre is celebrating its 50th birthday Friday. What's now broadly referred to as old school hip-hop is the genre's earliest commercially recorded music, and typically refers to songs put out from approximately 1979 to 1983.
Five decades after a Bronx block party ushered in hip-hop's 'Big Bang' moment, the culture-shifting genre is celebrating its 50th birthday Friday. Read more