Hip-hop hits that would never fly today A reader asked a fair question after our ’70s songs series. Why does rock always take the heat? Hip-hop ...

Previously unpublished photos, shot by Patricia Beck and recently unearthed from the Detroit Free Press' archive of film negatives, provide a rare glimpse into the Hip Hop Shop scene three decades on.

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...