This 1988 hit made it to the top of the US and UK rap and hip-hop charts ... MC is one of the most memorable hip-hop tracks to come out of the tail-end of the 1980s. It made it to no.

Rapsody is the third female rapper to win Best Melodic Rap Performance, following Lauryn Hill, who won the award in 1999 for ...

From this shared origin of technological experimentation, cultural resilience and creative ingenuity, hip-hop and house music grew into distinct yet globally influential movements. By the early 1980s, ...

Author and music journalist Ben Camp –aka Novocaine132 – a longtime resident of Burien’s Chelsea Park neighborhood, has ...

The message and the MIDI By the early 1980s, both genres had found their ... encapsulating its liberatory spirit, as rap music and hip-hop culture embarked on its mainstream journey with songs ...

But it was only in 1989 that an award category for “best rap performance” started ... By the early 1980s, both genres had found their feet. Hip-hop emerged as a powerful voice for storytelling ...