establishing himself as a voice for his generation and one of hip-hop’s most influential figures. Few artists embodied the contradictions and complexities of 1990s America more powerfully than ...

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 ...

But what I found most surprising was that mentions went back further than the '90s… and even the '80s. Released in 1979, "Rapper's Delight" is arguably the first commercially successful hip-hop ...

The 2025 edition, titled Power to the Poets, will highlight the enduring legacy of hip-hop as a force for truth, resistance ...

The Anthology captures the evolution of hip-hop from its earliest days in the late 70s up to contemporary artists of today. Lean more about the diverse history of ... of African American History and ...

The street-conscious production, drawn together by an award-winning team of artists ... the 70s and 80s, which would later birth the cultural explosion we know today as hip-hop, including ...