Today we celebrate the 57th birthday of Grammy Award-winning lyricist and hip hop pioneer Big Daddy Kane.

The dynamic duo that still has a spot on many hip-hop lovers’ Top Five list has a fascinating backstory that is just as much business as it is personal. If you listened to hip-hop in the late 1980s ...

Any conversation regarding the historical context of rap music will almost certainly rely heavily on the near ritualistic practice of sampling, essentially using older songs as the basis as the basis ...

It’s hard to imagine a time when rap wasn’t dominating the charts, but back in the mid-1980s, hip-hop was still finding its ...