From DJ Kool Herc and The Last Poets to Prophets of Da City and Mode 9, here’s how African history has influenced hip-hop – and vice-versa – 50 years after the genre was born.

From DJ Kool Herc and The Last Poets to Prophets of Da City and Mode 9, here’s how African history has influenced hip-hop – and vice-versa – 50 years after the genre was born.

Hip-hop, which is now 50 years old, has moved far from the Bronx to become a cultural force around the world and particularly in the youthful, fast-growing cities of Africa.

Lunmctik has always identified with hip hop culture, and despite the local musical landscape, he is determined to carve out his own niche. “I have always identified myself as a Skrr skrr, and ...

One of South Africa’s hip hop heavyweights, Maglera Doe Boy, has secured a spot with his feature on the soundtrack for the fourth season of the popular American crime drama television series ...

Hip-hop culture is unique in South Africa, there is a localized aesthetic.” The filmmaker began writing “Apetown” back in 2012 and the timing was finally right this year to bring the project ...

From Africa to the Bronx and back. It’s widely believed that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx was the birthplace of the hip-hop genre, and it all began with DJ Kool Herc. On August 11, 1973 ...

(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so ...