WHYY

Hip-hop’s Chill Moody folds ‘everything’ into message and music

The Wawa Welcome America concert on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will draw thousands. While pop icon Pitbull takes center stage, a local hip-hop artist and designated “music ambassador to ...
AV Club

Will Smith joins the lo-fi hip hop beats movement by sharing his own chill-out video

For a brief period of time last month, YouTube caused everyone to experience the decidedly un-chill worry that the foundational “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” was going to disappear.
The Fader

“Lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to” returns to YouTube after brief ban

ChilledCow is the YouTube creator responsible for the incredibly popular, possibly paradigm-shifting YouTube stream "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to." Over the weekend, their entire ...
USA Today

What is hip-hop? An attempt to define the cultural phenomenon as it celebrates 50 years

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 ...
PBS

Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way

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 ...