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NEW YORK (AP) — Those looking for a hip-hop starting point have landed on one, turning this year into a 50th-birthday celebration. August 11, 1973 was the date young Jamaica-born Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc around his Bronx stomping...

In the five decades since hip-hop emerged out of New York City, it has spread around the country and the world. And at each step there’s been change and adaptation,

"Gentleman" Jim Gates and Edie "Lady Edie B." Anderson were first to play Sugarhill Gangs "Rappers Delight" at WESL in 1979.

Hip-hop has impacted everything: Art, culture, fashion, community, social justice, politics, sports, business. This year is being marked as a 50th anniversary celebration.

As hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary on Aug. 11, The Times looks back at 50 moments that helped change the course of popular culture.

An R&B singer-songwriter-turned-exec, Sylvia Robinson founded the seminal rap label Sugar Hill Records. Its very first release? The landmark 'Rapper's Delight.'

The Vanderbilt Commodores will enter the 2023 football season having lost 27 of their last 29 Southeastern Conference games.

After Mike Leach died unexpectedly from complications of a heart condition on Dec. 12, Mississippi State officials didnt mount a nationwide search to find a new football coach.

One day after receiving a contract extension that will go through 2029, Vanderbilt Football head coach Clark Lea headed to the Grand Hyatt in downtown Nashville to speak at SEC Media Day on July 18. Ethan Barr, Mahoney and Will Sheppard represented the Commodores as student-athletes. “Vanderbilt football pursues success at the highest level and...

A lot of changes are happening for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and that means there's been a bunch of Mississippi State Bulldogs news as of late.