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.

These five artists represent just a glimpse of the burgeoning hip hop scene in South Africa.

Award-winning rapper Cassper Nyovest was born Refiloe Maele Phoolo, and the late hip-hop star AKA was Kiernan Jarryd Forbes.

The South African cast will be rappers Gigi Lamayne, Da L.E.S, Fifi Copper, Yanga Chief, DJ Speedsta, Shane Eagle, Money, Badoo and J Molly. The show will take viewers into everyday lives of hip-hop ...

22-year-old rapper, Lunmctik, real name Sphelele Qadi is carving his own unique path in the SA music scene with the recent release of his single, Okay.

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.

A few days ago, Cassper Nyovest, South Africa’s biggest hip-hop star flaunted his new expensive rides and sent the world talking about his net worth.

(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 ...

It was in 2016, nearly 30 years after Hip Hop found its way onto the Cape Flats, that AKA released the first English, South African Hip Hop album to go platinum.