Looking for the full list of the 100 greatest hip-hop songs of all time? Check it out right here. Editor’s note: To make this list, Rolling Stone asked 33 artists and experts – from Rick Rubin to ...
Hip-hop has had a strong connection to reggae music since the days of DJ Kool Herc’s summer house parties in the early 1970s. Hip-hop’s foundation was built on elements of the Jamaican sound system ...
Billboard forecasts which next-gen artists, creatives and executives will be tomorrow's greats. If there’s one constant in the music industry, it’s this question: Who’s got next? As hip-hop’s 50th ...
Now more than three decades old as a recorded medium, hip-hop is deeply embedded in popular culture – to the point where its stars seem not only larger than life but also, as Rick Ross once put it, ...
It started, famously, with two turntables and a microphone – with a DJ mixing and scratching records, and an MC rapping along. But the best hip-hop albums show off a genre that’s come a long way since ...
Dusty Henry of KEXP's 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast explores a groundbreaking innovation by 12-year-old Theodore Livingston, aka Grand Wizzard Theodore. This year, NPR, along with member stations, has ...