On August 11, 1973, hip-hop was born, changing music and popular culture forever. But in each decade since, the genre has been distinct, with its own style, stars and sounds. In honor of hip-hop ...

We drew from each decade’s biggest hits, but some genres were inevitably underrepresented: Hits from ’80s and early ’90s rap, for example, rarely got the radio play required to make a major ...

The Rock the Bells Festival, presented LL Cool J showcased some of the genre’s best from the 1980s and 1990s at Prudential Center in Newark.

Continue reading Golden Age of Hip-Hop and Best in ’90s Hip Hop ... Millennials and even Gen Zers would know exactly what to wear to look like they were stepping into the mid-’80s to mid-’90s.

Two decades after this song’s release, it became the namesake of the Rock the Bells Festival, which found veterans of ‘80s and ‘90s hip-hop performing their classics for huge crowds all over ...

In the '80s, hip-hop hit the mainstream, and it's stayed there in the decades since. When hip-hop emerged, it had an urgency and power that set it apart from the pop that dominated the charts, but ...

Hip-hop might have been birthed in the ‘80s; however it wasn't until the ‘90s when the genre started to take off. It was an era of legends like Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, and more who ...

The jazz trumpeter has been a vocal critic of rap since the mid-80s. ... 20 Great Hip-Hop/Jazz Albums of the '90s. Filed Under: A Tribe Called Quest, CL Smooth, Common, ...

The Boombox looks back at ten influential shows from the 1990s that were among the first to embrace hip-hop and ... 80s, A Different World slowly began to embrace hip-hop culture in the 90s.

Continue reading Golden Age of Hip-Hop and Best in ’90s Hip Hop ... Millennials and even Gen Zers would know exactly what to wear to look like they were stepping into the mid-’80s to mid-’90s.