Hip-hop is another story — and more frustrating because it’s more long-standing. Artists including Drake, Jay-Z, Lamar and Kanye West have dominated the nominations and always win in rap categories.

The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tennessee State University will make homecoming history this week when Grammy-nominated rap icon Jeezy takes the stage at Hale Stadium as part of the Roar on the Yard ...

Hip-hop was born in the break — that moment when a song’s vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. At the hands of the DJs, that break moment became more: a composition in ...

Fifty years into hip-hop, we've gotten used to decades of headlines proclaiming the genre's culture is homophobic and misogynistic — that generations of queer talents were forced to the peripheries ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...

Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Today that party is considered by many "the birth of hip-hop." SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Hip-hop has a big birthday next ...