On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...

Hip-hop legend Ice Cube sat down with veteran journalist Shaheem Reid on POLARIS, an exclusive series on GOALS TV, for a ...

National Hip-Hop Museum honors hip-hop legends at Hip-Hop Holiday Honors. Kool Moe Dee, Lords of the Underground, and more ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...