With hip-hop aging as an art form, listeners are more and more inclined to tag a particular artist or album of the past as "old school." Depending on ones age, that could be as recent as the early to ...
Growing up in Indiana, Rashad Harden gained a knack for deejaying during his college years at Kennedy-King College. At the same time, Rashad was heavy into the dance scene, joining break dancing crews ...
No one knows exactly when rap started. Maestros like Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash imported sound-system basics to the Bronx from the Caribbean through the 1970s, but there were eons of antecedents ...
Grandmaster Flash, “Rapper’s Delight,” the Boogie Down Bronx and New Jersey’s Sugar Hill Studios are the cornerstones of a hip-hop culture that is known all over the world. But with a break here and ...
The second in a series of Retropolis stories looking back at moments in hip-hop history during the week of the music genre’s 50th anniversary. In 1979, the Billboard charts were awash in disco grooves ...
To the wider world, Seattle hip-hop boils down to two pop breakthroughs: Sir Mix-A-Lot and Macklemore. But a closer look shows we have a complex scene going back 36 years, since the Emerald Street ...
Wallo267 on the Future of Million Dollaz Worth of Game Podcast, Being One of Hip-Hop’s Most Trusted Voices and Why He’ll Never Stop Speaking Life Into Rappers Even When They’re Not Ready to Hear It ...
Stones Throw's recent old school hip-hop compilation, The Third Unheard, opens with Tony Pearson performing as Mr. Magic. The ... Save this story Save this story Stones Throw's recent old school ...