harbanger "A septet of turntablists" — harbanger performs at the Library of Congress Clive Thompson

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hip hop Gangsta's Paradise, 1920s edition Rob Beschizza

hip hop Twenty years after Jam Master Jay's murder, two men charged in the case David Pescovitz

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citizen dj The Library of Congress is launching an open-source archive of hip-hop samples dating back more than a century Thom Dunn

fundraising Right now: Watch this rapper attempting to freestyle for 33 straight hours for charity David Pescovitz

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breakdancing Watch the 1983 breakdancing documentary that inspired the movie Breakin' David Pescovitz

gangstagrass Video: Gangstagrass's first live video: authentic bluegrass/hip-hop mashup Cory Doctorow

Chance the Rapper Stephen Colbert connects hip hop song verses to Tolkien via Gilbert and Sullivan Rusty Blazenhoff

Instragram Watch this terrific video for a concept album of 15 one-minute songs Andrea James

hip hop Watch Trump "endorse" Eminem back in 2004 David Pescovitz

blockchain Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah launching cryptocurrency David Pescovitz

editing Forty years of hip hop masterfully cut up into one song David Pescovitz

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down the memory hole 40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists Andrea James

sampling David Axelrod, incredibly influential soul/jazz/rock composer and producer, RIP David Pescovitz