As hip-hop began to grow, it branched out to include more electronic elements, particularly with the advent in 1980 of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, which offered up many of the classic hip-hop ...

It was a bike like nothing else. Not only the first classic hip-hop album, but a sharp breaking point from the buoyant post-disco rhythms and future-shocked electro that dominated the genre's ...

eventually dropped the “Doggy”), signature track among classic hip-hop enthusiasts. It was Snoop’s second hit single from his Dr. Dre produced debut album, Doggystyle, an album that remains ...

And we need to do it through rap, which is why I chose the sonical direction that I chose.I wanna take us back to this ...

Towards the end of her set, Trina performed her classic hit "Nann" and invited Caresha to deliver the Miami legend's iconic verse. Trina's performance at the 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards went down a ...

Hip-hop-legend-turned-movie-star Ice Cube is topping the bill at an old-school hip-hop throwdown in Phoenix called Nightmare on Cube Street on Saturday, Oct. 19. The headliner famously launched ...

To them, he is a genre-hopping street poet who took the old hip hop traditions he grew up with and injected it with fresh social commentary. "He isn’t trying to cater to an Indian audience ...