For decades, hip-hop was snubbed by folks who refused to consider it high art; now curators are clamoring to tell its stories. In 2021, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston showcased DJ Screw’s legendary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VJ Ralph McDaniels at work lining up a music video for his show, "Video Music Box" on WNYC-TV on January 7, 1988, in New York City ...

For a generation that gets its music videos from YouTube and the like, it’s hard to conceive of a time when your options in that regard were far, far fewer. In December 1983, “Uncle” Ralph McDaniels, ...

Ralph McDaniels, the trailblazing force behind “Video Music Box,” will mark his 66th birthday with a celebration that promises to be as influential as the man himself. On February 27, 2025, Brooklyn ...

Today McDaniels' official title is Hip Hop Coordinator at the Queens Public Library, and the microphone box he used on his show is in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and ...

Amer Ahmed, a longtime board member at the Hip Hop Congress, found the concept of American Indian hip-hop strikingly unfamiliar. Last November, Ahmed, director of intercultural affairs at Concordia ...