Hip-Hop Wins and Milestones at The 2025 Grammys
Rapsody is the third female rapper to win Best Melodic Rap Performance, following Lauryn Hill, who won the award in 1999 for ...
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The Real Origins of Hip-Hop: Dispelling the Myths of the Genre’s Birth
Despite the genre's massive influence and global reach ... all of which laid the groundwork for what would eventually become ...
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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture
For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and ...
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Looking Ahead at 2025: We Predict How the Hip Hop Landscape Will Change in the Next 12 Months
Blockchain and NFTs are reshaping how artists active across all genres are monetizing their work. As 2025 progresses, expect to see more artists using NFTs to connect with fans, build their audience, ...
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A half-century of hip-hop: Genre has evolved, branched out over the decades
Today, there’s a good argument to be made that hip-hop is the dominant genre in popular music. Its elements have shown up everywhere from pop to R&B to even modern country. Remove the ads from ...
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NPR Hip-Hop
January 29, 2025 • The rapper and DJ, who died over the weekend at 43, was the biggest hit for the indie label Big Oomp Records. Its brief but shining moment injected fun back into a scene in ...
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Hot Rap Songs
THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...
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Rap music is being used as evidence to convict children of serious crimes
The material selected by the state typically has violent themes, often from the popular ‘drill’ rap music genre, and is composed by one or more of the defendants or by one of their friends. This use ...