Hip-hop has a story to tell — from early works like Grandmaster Flash’s The Message to Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning album DAMN. and beyond. As education scholar Bettina L. Loves notes, in hip-hop ...
Hip-Hop Hooray! Common, the Grammy-winning voice ... and introspective storytelling make her one of rap’s most exciting voices. She won everybody else over. Glorious isn’t perfect, but ...
On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...