Hip-hop has grown beyond a music genre into a global movement, transcending languages and cultures. Originating from African traditions and evolving in the South Bronx, it became a powerful ...
For the first time, hip-hop surpassed rock as the most popular genre in the US last year, according to Nielsen's year-end report. Eight of the top ten most popular artists came from the hip-hop/R ...
By the late 1990s, hip-hop was dominating the popular music charts. Collectives like the Wu-Tang Clan (and all of its members’ subsequent solo albums), the Bad Boy Records family (that included ...
Rather than simply a genre, hip-hop is a culture – one chiefly expressed and disseminated through rap music. That notion of “keeping it real” – has been at its core. As ever with popular ...
THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...
There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. At this year’s awards, taking place on Feb. 2, hip-hop and ...
And dance moves like this? Straight out of hip-hop choreography. As for the music itself, well, country's sounding a lot like hip-hop too. You've got trap beats. 808 kick drums. Rap-like rhythms.
Hip-hop might have been birthed in the ‘80s; however it wasn't until the ‘90s when the genre started to take off. It was an era of legends like Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, and more who ...
Mr Phormula is a well-known hip-hop artist from Wales. Fusion Fusion music is when composers or performers blend two or more styles of music together to create a new piece of music.
By Hannah Dailey Ariana Grande is explaining what really happened with that scrapped hip-hop version of “Popular,” which composer Stephen Schwartz had intended to put in Jon M. Chu’s Wicked ...