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 ...
thanks to a bi-coastal effort from rap vets like Snoop Dogg, Onyx, Diddy, and Salt-N-Pepa. Treacherous Three never get their deserved credit as hip-hop innovators. Their speed rapping skills ...
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, ...