Luminate Midyear Report 2026: R&B/Hip-Hop Falls, Dance Rises

In the first half of the year, global on-demand audio streams grew by 9.8% and U.S. on-demand audio streams grew by 4.4%.

Choreographer Kate Prince: ‘Hip-hop is like a massive jar of honey’

The founder of ZooNation on how the company – about to celebrate its 20th anniversary – helped to bring hip-hop dance into the mainstream ...
The New York Times

Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The choreographer and his Puremovement troupe brought their touring show, “Nuttin’ but a Word,” to Prospect Park for BRIC Celebrate ...
PopSugar

This 10-Minute Hip-Hop Dance Workout Teaches Some of the Best '90s Moves

Join dancer and choreographer Arianna Davis to learn some '90s hip-hop dance moves with class members Lilian Gonzalez and Rehima Jordan. Get ready to break down and drill fun '90s moves like the ...
The New York Times

Breakers Grapple With Hip-Hop’s Big Olympic Moment

Largely left out of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, breaking will get its stage at the Paris Olympics. Its pioneers wonder if their art will translate into sport. Credit...Michelle Farsi for The New York ...
Miami Herald

The 44 Percent: Rap beef, Miami Northwestern dance team, RIP Rico Wade

American rapper Future performs on the Ciroc main stage during the second day of Rolling Loud Miami, an international hip-hop festival, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on Saturday, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

They Were Just Having a Back-to-School Party in an Apartment Rec Room. Little Did They Know They Were Creating Hip-Hop

The music genre that became a global sensation started with some creative teens just getting together and riffing rhymes to ...