Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

Musical chameleon Beck Hansen, a 36-year-old Los Angeles native, has an unusual definition of "hip-hop." With little resemblance to the recently developed conventions pioneered by the genre's modern ...