Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the chronicles of Hip Hop, the tale of the DJs who formed the genre’s foundation is a significant but frequently ignored ...
That’s where Tuma Basa comes in. He’s currently YouTube’s Director of Black Music and Culture, and he’s been obsessing over rap videos his whole life—from his childhood as a hip-hop fan to his ...
Ralph McDaniels popularized the shout-out. His show Video Music Box debuted in 1983 on the New York television station WNYC-TV and airs to this day on WNYE-TV, making it the longest-running music ...
How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...