Though not well-known today, Moore was instrumental in hip-hop’s early mainstream success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, ...

He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...

Revolutionaries M-1 and Stic.man celebrate dead prez's 25th milestone in Brooklyn, highlighting their impact on socially conscious Hip-Hop.

In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams ...

Several of the most lauded hip-hop songs in music history have achieved diamond status—10 million sold or more—according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). For these ...

The latest episode of Real Me Hip Hop India Season 2 on Amazon MX Player delivered a power-packed dose of entertainment with a surprise guest judge—Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan. The hip-hop ...

To commemorate Women's History Month, World Cafe is looking back on a century's worth of music history. Every week in March, ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from IDK, Reason, and TiaCorine. The avalanche of new releases in hip-hop continued this week, albeit at a slightly slower rate ...

Released during the 1979 holiday season ... “Moore was a key figure in the early commercialization of Hip Hop. His productions helped bridge the gap between Hip Hop and mainstream audiences ...