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Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap's "Exit" From Billboard's Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

"Just A Friend" screamed POP HIT! The "vocalist," a Long Island, New York MC, deejay and beat boxing jokester, was laughably ...
The Root

Salt-N-Pepa, Will Smith Explore the Impact of Their 1989 Grammys Boycott

At the 65th Annual Grammys in February, there was a huge 50th-anniversary of hip-hop celebration performance. Just recently The Recording Academy announced it would showcase the genre at A GRAMMY ...
Gothamist

Start Your Weekend Right With This 1989 NYC Hip-Hop Radio Mix

Lovers of neck-breaking beats and rapid rhyme schemes rejoice: your weekend is about to get a whole lot funkier thanks to a newly-recovered tape recording of classic NYC hip-hop radio programming. The ...
The Source

Today in Hip Hop History: Eazy-E Released ‘It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa’ 32 Years Ago

Eazy-E Released 'It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa' 32 Years Ago Eazy-E 'It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa' 32 Years Ago ...

Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.
USA Today

What is hip-hop? An attempt to define the cultural phenomenon as it celebrates 50 years

The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...
CBS News

LL COOL J explores hip-hop's roots in new docuseries, "Hip Hop Was Born Here"

Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's authentic New York roots with his new docuseries "Hip Hop Was Born Here," ...