When the needle hit the records on DJ Kool Herc's turntable, launching hip-hop's start 50 years ago, the sound pushed a new culture into the arts, especially music and fashion. Hip-hop's ...

Big Daddy Kane was the first to rock this look during the rise of rap in the ’80s. Since then, the look has moved past hip-hop and made it into popular fashion. Will Smith and Bobby Brown both ...

The 50-plus-year-old genre has had distinct moments within the fashion industry in the early 2000s, but the Golden Age of Hip-Hop is the one ... into the mid-’80s to mid-’90s.

On stage and in magazine spreads, rappers have waged a Cold War about who could dress the flyest, wear the most outré thing, push the envelope the furthest. And they backed it up on their songs ...