Rob Base, the influential rapper whose music helped bridge hip-hop and dance culture in the late 1980s, has died at the age of 59. Rapper Rob Base, a prominent figure in the ‘80s hip-hop scene best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx. But here, too, hip-hop happened.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK, NEW YORK--JANUARY 18: Rapper Rob Base (aka Robert Ginyard)records vocals for the remix of "It Takes Two" at Greene ...

The 1980s were a time when spinning and swaying to rhythmic beats came naturally on and off-screen. Clad in spandex and jamming out to pop numbers, the simple pleasure that rouses out of a dance ...

As hip-hop culture started to take hold in New Orleans in the early 1980s, it wasn’t just the new music that was influencing locals. A number of young Black New Orleanians started adapting the dance ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. At this year’s awards, taking place on Feb. 2, hip-hop and house ...

Montsho Eshe grew up in Southwest Atlanta, a child of dance. Her first teacher was her mother, Billie Ann Gaither, who in the 1960s opened the Gaither School of Dance, one of the first Black-owned ...