YouTube celebrate 50 years of hip-hop with FIFTY DEEP campaign

Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann, as the couple celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary this week. The actress took to Instagram to mark the occasion by sharing a sweet throwback photo from the couple's 2004 nuptials. In the shot, Hermann can be seen smiling while dancing with his bride.

Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan are celebrating 18 years of marriage.

Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann are celebrating 19 years of wedded bliss!

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10, even if it does date back to the silent era. The film screens this Sunday as the climax of the Academy Museum’s “Silent Sundays” series, with a live score from a 24-piece orchestra helping heighten the suspense in the ultimate fear-of-heights movie.

Livestream shopping platform NTWRK is teaming up with Amazon Music and its audio storytelling app Audible for Hip-Hop Sounds & Stories: A 50 & Forever Celebration, an immersive two-day experience that explores how fans have been listening to hip-hop over the last five decades. Read Next: NTWRK, Paramount Pictures, and streetwear brand We Are Little Giants celebrate Mutant Mayhem Happening August 26 and 27 at NTWRK LA, the free event will feature live performances from DJ Drama and SleazyWorld Go, exclusive audio content, and an in-depth discussion on the influences that have shaped the genre.

A much-loved great-great-grandmother has celebrated her 100th birthday in style surrounded by five generations of her family.

We're only a few days from the start of Manchester Pride - one of the country’s biggest celebrations of the LGBTQ+ community. The annual Pride will take place over the August bank holiday weekend (August 25-28) and will feature plenty of fun, music, and events to keep you busy.

Spanish women’s national team celebrates their historic World Cup win in Australia, on the other side of the world, in the U.S., David Beckham is thrilled about his team’s title victory. Led by Lionel Messi, Inter Miami triumphed over Nashville SC.

Sarah Hyland and husband Wells Adams are celebrating one year of marriage.

Samuel L. Jackson is reaching a golden height in his marriage with LaTanya Richardson Jackson: their 43rd anniversary!

Mick Jenkins has a chip on his shoulder when it comes to defending hip-hop’s under-appreciated underground. “We’re celebrating 50 years of hip-hop, and a lot of artists like myself who’ve been in this joint for 10, 15 years, underground the whole time, don’t get to be a part of the celebration, but artists who’ve been here for six months get to be on stage at the award show,” he points out in conversation with Dylan Green on this week’s episode of The FADER Interview. “We’re celebrating 50 years of hip hop, not 50 years of rap.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi just hit a major marriage milestone!

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi just hit a major marriage milestone!The couple celebrated 15 years of wedded bliss on Wednesday, with DeGeneres taking to Instagram to mark the occasion with a sweet tribute to her wife.«To my wife of 15 years- I fall more in love with you every day. My life is blessed because you’re in it.

Halle Berry is celebrating her birthday today, August 14th. The sun sign is a Leo, and she was surrounded by two of the most important people in her life, her daughter, Nahla, who she shares with ex Gabriel Aubry and her boyfriend Van Hunt. A post shared by Halle Berry (@halleberry)Berry shared a gallery of photos from her day, and the trio watched the Barbie movie, which historically made $1 billion at the global box office.

Chuck D has narrated a new audio docu-drama series about the rise of hip-hop, which is available to listen to now.The American rapper and Public Enemy frontman recounts the story of hip-hop’s birth in the Bronx, New York during the late 1960s and early ’70s on new series Can You Dig It? A Hip-Hop Origin Story.Across five 30-minute episodes, the hip-hop pioneer retraces the genre’s rise through a blend of “immersive reenactments, oral history and expert discussion”, according to the show’s summary notes.“How did hip-hop happen? To understand that, we have to go back to before the birth’ of the culture,” the description reads.It continues: “It wasn’t a given that the Bronx of the late 1960s and early 1970s would be the birthplace of an American art form. Urban renewal had left the borough neglected and in crisis.

There was a brief moment during Hip Hop 50 Live — an epic celebration of the golden anniversary of hip-hop that stretched from Friday night into Saturday morning at New York’s Yankee Stadium— that provided a quick reality check.In between Kid Capri’s DJ set and a breakdancing segment featuring Rock Steady Crew legend Crazy Legs, Yankee legend Derek Jeter crashed what felt like the world’s biggest block party and reminded you that it was actually the home of the Bronx Bombers.But on this unforgettable night, the stadium belonged to hip-hop — the music and the game-changing culture that was fathered by DJ Kool Herc at a party in the South Bronx 50 years ago on Aug. 11, 1973.And with a loaded lineup that included golden-age groundbreakers (Run-DMC, Slick Rick), West Coast rap royalty (Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube) and new-millennium masters (Lil Wayne, T.I.), the marathon, seven-hour-plus concert felt like the Live Aid of hip-hop.

A.D. Amorosi Hip-hop may belong to the world now, but there’s little question that the sound and culture that took over the world had its start in the New York City borough of the Bronx in the summer of 1973, where DJ Kool Herc and others held neighborhood block parties — mixing, scratching and rhyming over records. In observance of that anniversary, Run D.M.C.

Run-DMC, a 12-year-old Darryl McDaniels got his first education in hip-hop at St. Pascal Baylon Catholic school in Jamaica, Queens.“I was in seventh grade, and Billy Morris — who was in the eighth grade — walked into the schoolyard with a flat Panasonic tape recorder that all the kids would use [back when] there were no boomboxes,” DMC, 59, told The Post.“And he said, ‘Yo, come listen to this!’ He pushed play, I heard a beat … and it was about, like, a minute and 30 seconds of this guy rapping over this little drum beat.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Igloo is keeping their brand cool with a new collaboration with the iconic ’80s hip-hop group DMC, in celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary.

Time flies by as a soap fan-favourite celebrated a big milestone birthday this week.Tina O'Brien has been a familiar face on Coronation Street since she was just sweet 16, joining in 1999, as Sarah Platt but as quick as a flash the blonde actress has turned 40. Growing up on our screens, the star has brought us countless incredible storylines including the coverage of hard hitting topics like teenage pregnancy, through to defending her daughter after she was the victim of abuse.This week on-set her on-screen family and friends couldn't resist celebrating her big 4-0 in style with a beautiful array of flowers including massive sunflowers and fluffy pink peonies.