Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap’s “Exit” From Billboard’s Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

The highest appearance by a hip-hop song is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s “Shot Callin,” at No. 44. Yet in 1990, hip-hop was ...
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DJ Premier and Ransom Redefine Authentic Hip-Hop with The Reinvention

The Reinvention delivers the kind of timeless production and razor-sharp lyricism that have long defined both Premier and Ransom’s legacies. “I’d say working with one of your Hip-Hop heroes is, in the ...
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Why the DJ and MC are two sides of the same hip-hop coin

Though the duo of MC and DJ complement one another’s abilities, upon further inspection, they basically use different methods ...

Rap troupe Salt-N-Pepa’s Rock Hall honor is ‘right on time’

Eligible for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction since 2010, the rap troupe Salt-N-Pepa gets its flowers with a Music ...
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DJ Polo, Of Old-School Hip-Hop Duo Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Has Died

DJ Polo was a part of the famed New York City hip-hop collective The Juice Crew. DJ Polo, the DJ for the hip-hop group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, has died. The sad announcement was made by ...