Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so ...

Big Zulu recently celebrated his 40th birthday. He marked the milestone the way he has built his career, loudly, intentionally and with his people at the centre. Instead of celebrating in Johannesburg’s usual celebrity circles, the Bergville-born rapper took the moment back home, staging his birthday in the community that shaped him.

This week in New York and around the United States hip-hop stars and fans celebrated the genre’s fiftieth anniversary with a series of events. It culminated in a major day-long live show featuring performances by the who’s who of America’s last true ...