Samantha and her sister Sandra made up the UK female rap duo Wee Papa Girl Rappers, who shot to fame in the late 1980s ... work with them on my Radio London hip-hop show back in the day, their ...

Rather than simply a genre, hip-hop is a culture – one chiefly expressed and disseminated through rap music A major commercial breakthrough arrived in the mid-1980s with Def Jam acts Run-DMC and ...

But, in the early 1980s, fashion brands faced a dilemma: embrace hip-hop, an exciting, raw sound, or shun it for fear of offending mass audiences. Along came Run DMC, who proved it was possible ...