“For Mature Audiences Only” – Scribe Shad Reed Discusses Aging Gracefully in Hip-Hop And Where We Are Now. Despite it being more than a decade ago, I still vividly remember speaking with DJ ...

If you listened to hip-hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s ... not even my closest friends,” he told Uptown in an interview. In the late 80s, rapping was just a hobby for Wyandanch, Long ...

Channeling late-’80s/early ... so the rap flow helps tell the story naturally. See Figure 6 below. While we commonly don’t think of Doechii’s style of hip-hop as a source of melody ...

Tommy Richman’s breakthrough single “Million Dollar Baby” was submitted in two rap categories for the ... claimed he’s “not a Hip-Hop artist” in a since-deleted tweet on October ...

Since the inception of hip-hop, rap duos have played a pivotal role in shaping the genre. These dynamic partnerships often stem from a blend of vocalists and producers, lifelong friends or even ...

If he’d been an artist during the ’80s, Killer Mike says being part of laying down hip hop’s roots would’ve been what he’d loved most. Killer Mike also shares, with a giggle, what he ...

In the '80s, hip-hop hit the mainstream ... which made them the first female rap group to earn a Platinum record. They would become one of the bestselling rap groups of all time.

But here, too, hip ... rap and hip-hop community later became residents of Bergen County," Glover said. "Because it's 10 minutes away from the city. Eight miles." In those first, flush days of the ...

When hip-hop was born, much of its inspiration came from building loops from drums and bass. Classic bass lines from the ’70s were lifted and reworked to create the backdrops for rap.

While rap in 2004 was far from the dominating force it is today, there were plenty of signs that hip-hop was here to stay in a big way. By comparison, in 2023, there were only five hip-hop songs ...

To conclude hip-hop's 50th ... M.E. A bass player from Queens, Larry Smith would link with Russell Simmons and help his artist Kurtis Blow make the first gold-certified rap record, “The Breaks.” ...