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AP correspondent Deepti Hajela reports on Hip-Hop Overview

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Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way
By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press
Wed,08/09/23-6:09AM , 175 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop was born in the break — that moment when a song’s vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage.
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Killer Mike of Run The Jewels performs at the Reading Music Festival in England, Aug. 28, 2022. Hip-hop has been an integral part of social and racial justice movements.It’s also been scrutinized by law enforcement and political groups because of their belief that hip-hop and its artists’ encourage violent criminality. Free speech advocates see the ongoing persecution of rappers as a proxy war primarily waged against Black and Latino people who are the early pioneers of the culture. For hip-hop artists who live under repressive regimes, “dropping bars” to air one’s grievances against the government can mean time behind bars or worse. (Photo by Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)

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Hip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting
By AARON MORRISON - AP National Writer
Wed,08/09/23-5:31AM , 221 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — In the early days of hip-hop, plugging turntables into a light post and converting an outdoor basketball court into a discotheque may have seemed like a simple invitation to party.
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Female rappers have been a part of hip-hop since its debut. Women have fought to shape their identification in hip-hop and demand recognition. (August 9)(AP Video: Sharon Johnson)

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Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction
By SHAR0N JOHNSON AND NARDOS HAILE - Associated Press
Wed,08/09/23-5:27AM , 119 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — Rasheeda Frost’s decades-long relationship with hip-hop started in 1981. She was a curious, energetic kindergartener — eager to touch and explore anything put in front of her.
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U.S rap artist Pharrell Williams, right, talks with an unidentified journalist after the presentation of Louis Vuitton men's fall/winter 2008-2009 fashion collection in Paris, Jan.17, 2008. The signs of hip-hop’s influence are now everywhere from Pharrell Williams becoming Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director to billion-dollar brands like Dr. Dre’s Beats headphones and retail mainstays like Diddy’s Sean John and the Rocawear line started by Jay-Z. It didn’t start out that way. Companies at first balked at partnering with hip-hop acts because they felt that the genre that appealed to Black and brown teens and young adults didn't align with their brands. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, file)

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How hip-hop went from being shunned by big business to multimillion-dollar collabs
By GLENN GAMBOA - AP Business Writer
Wed,08/09/23-5:13AM , 179 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — The signs of hip-hop’s influence are everywhere — from Pharrell Williams becoming Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director to billion-dollar brands like Dr.
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