While hip-hop and all of its creative expressions was born in New York City in the late 1970s, it was the 1980s when the music began to come into form. There was excitement and experimentation but ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

Did you know that France is the second largest market for rap albums in the world? In fact, some French artists sell more units than their American ...

The pulse of the 1970s The roots of hip-hop and house music both lie in the seismic shifts of the late 1970s, a period of sociopolitical unrest and electronic experimentation that redefined the ...