Danny “Scooby” Morales and House Magana are both way old-school. Besides being founding members of the Furious Styles Crew dance collective when it started close to two decades ago, they’ve been ...

“Hip-hop was set out in the dark/ They used to do it out in the park” begins MC Shan’s classic rap track “The Bridge.” But while the almost 30-year-old track refers to rap’s park days in the past ...

In foundational hip-hop films such as “Juice,” “8 Mile” or “Brown Sugar,” freestyle rap is often depicted in the context of a battle where a rowdy throng gathers around two MCs preparing for verbal ...