Stanley Kirk Burrell, better known professionally as MC Hammer, earned most of his wealth as a prominent rapper during the ...

Lizzo then clarified that she believes “the origins of sampling…were racially charged” as hip-hop was built on sampling for much of the ’70s and ’80s. “The origin of sampling laws were racially ...

MTV could make or break a song in the 90s, and many were videos so overplayed, you couldn't forget them if you tried.

In the ’90s, Hip-Hop music really began to take over the music industry, even though it was still dismissed by some older generations as “noise” and “not real music.” However, not everyone in the ...

William Madden, AKA the ‘B-boy Wizard’, was one of the Belfast City Breakers, which formed as teens in the early 1980s and ...

These one-hit wonders from the 90s could easily make a comeback today, especially in modern alt-rock and hip-hop spaces.

Before production began on the 1984 film “Beat Street,” a semi-fictional drama about the early days of hip-hop and breaking in the South Bronx, a researcher on the production team visited Ricky Flores ...

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Colin Greenwood, Philip Selway, Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood. With its mandolin ...

Hip hop culture is arguably the most impactful artistic export the U.S. has to offer. It left its mark on everything: no haute couture house or Eastern European indie band was left untouched. What’s ...