The jookin’ movement was all but unheard of outside of Miami until earlier this week when DJ Khaled dropped “To The Max” feat. Drake. The fast-paced hip-hop subgenre was an underground movement in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ka’Niyah Bostic was just a kid when she first saw somebody jook. The memory, however, burns bright to this very day: the shoulders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Florida’s place in hip-hop history cannot be overstated. It is, after all, the birthplace of the South’s first subgenre of ...

That was 50 years ago today. Though hip-hop’s oft-repeated origin story historically prioritizes the gift of poetics, we forget that rap’s storm of funk got the people going. From DJ Kool Herc’s ...

Ka’Niyah Bostic was just a kid when she first saw somebody jook. The memory, however, burns bright to this very day: the shoulders, the head nods, the footwork. “We was at a family gathering and I was ...

South Florida’s place in hip-hop history cannot be overstated. It is, after all, the birthplace of the South’s first subgenre of hip-hop and the South’s first Black-owned hip-hop label. More than that ...

Miami rappers have created a tradition of bold, brash rappers whose lyrics reflect the communities they are from, from Trick Daddy to Rick Ross. Matias J Ocner, Carl Juste and D.A. Varela ...