Twenty-five years after its release, hindsight reveals one now-dated aspect of Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Volume 1: The front cover refers to its fusion of hip-hop and jazz as “experimental.” In 1993, the ...

Is New York, New York, really the birthplace of hip hop? Is this ultimate city—the preferred setting for most modern-day film fables —the place where the seed took hold? Where the rhymes first flowed ...

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On November 9th, 1993 rap music was changed forever. On this day, 9 Gods from the slums of Shaolin, who together form the Wu Tang Clan, released their first studio LP entitled Enter the Wu-Tang (36 ...

This article originally appeared on the Conversation. Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize win is a major milestone for hip-hop, a genre that celebrates its 45th birthday this August. It's also a triumph ...

Consider this: In the entire history of Billboard’s Hot 100, solo female rappers have fronted a No. 1 single just twice—Lauryn Hill’s 1998 half-sung “Doo Wop (That Thing),” and Iggy Azalea’s 2014 ...

CHICAGO - FEBRUARY 1993: Rapper Ice Cube performs at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois in February 1993. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) This article originally appeared in the August 1993 ...