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The Top 50 Hip-Hop Singles Of The 1980s
SPIN via Yahoo News· 10 months agoI REMEMBER WHEN RAP WAS YOUNG In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the...
Run-D.M.C. performs for final time, Snoop Dogg, Nas, hip-hop icons celebrate 50 years with blowout...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoNEW YORK – Hip-hop went all in for its 50th birthday celebration. Hip-hop luminaries lit up the Hip...
Hip-hop turns 50: How a musical genre became a 'cultural phenomenon'
Yahoo Music via AOL· 10 months agoA mural at the birthplace of hip-hop at the Bronx's Sedgwick Houses, featuring an image of the...
Tracks transformed: 25 Hip Hop songs and their legendary samples
Revolt via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoSince its humble beginnings, one of Hip Hop's most distinctive features has been sampling, which...
Large Professor always knew Nas was destined for greatness
Revolt via Yahoo News· 11 months agoDuring his “Drink Champs” appearance, Large Professor opened up about meeting a teenage Nas, who...
Respect the DJ: 16 hip hop DJs who made music history
Revolt via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoIn the chronicles of Hip Hop, the tale of the DJs who formed the genre’s foundation is a significant...
A half-century of hip-hop: Genre has evolved, branched out over the decades
Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa. via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAug. 11—Hip-hop has come a long way since DJ Kool Herc started isolating funk-record instrumental breaks to make Bronx dance parties even more danceable. Along the way, it traveled to all corners ...
The sound of success: Legendary studios that helped shape Hip Hop
Revolt via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLegendary Hip Hop recording studios are the hallowed grounds where many iconic tracks and albums in...
Dr. Dre, a Defiant One, Goes From Compton Streets to Receiving His Hollywood Walk of Fame Star
Variety via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFrom the distinction of becoming hip-hop’s first billionaire to being honored with a Hollywood Walk...
Gary Simmons and the phantoms of racial and cultural history at his MCA retrospective ‘Public Enemy’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe fourth floor of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, through Oct. 1, will be a haunted house,...