Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way

Flavor Flav, left, and Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy, pose for photographers upon their arrival for the MTV Music Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall, Sept. 8, 1994. 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, as new, different voices came in and made it their own. Its foundations are steeped in the Black communities where it first made itself known but it's spread out until there鈥檚 no corner of the world that hasn鈥檛 been touched by it. Public Enemy's 鈥淔ight the Power鈥 became an anthem when it was created for filmmaker Spike Lee's 1989 classic 鈥淒o the Right Thing," which chronicled racial tension in a Brooklyn neighborhood. (AP Photo/Malcolm Clarke)

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LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 Hip-hop, the most popular genre in America, turned 50 this August. Born in the Bronx and spread to every corner of the world, it's hard to find the words to express the culture's influence and legacy 鈥 but, hey, that's what the music is for.

To celebrate this momentous milestone, pioneers Public Enemy and Ice-T will headline The 好色tv Celebration of Hip-Hop, free concerts held at the West Potomac Park on the 好色tv Mall in Washington D.C. on Oct. 6 and 7.

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