Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best soundtracks ...

Often confused with one another, rap and hip-hop were significant parts of the American music and culture scene of the 1980s. Hip-hop is the cultural scene defined by four elements: deejaying ...

In the 1980s, hip-hop was mostly party music. It wasn't until the late '80s that it really became social commentary in a big way. So, of course, that meant that any movie in 1990, especially one ...

Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st century, is something a bit different, a show in which fine art is sprinkled through ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hip-hop was outlawed in every club. Any DJ that ventured to play a rap tune was told immediately by the owner to shut it down. "Obviously, if you wanted to hear the music, you’ve got to put ...

Hip Hop llegend Samantha Lawrence has sadly passed away aged 55 after battling cancer. The musician was part of duo Wee Papa Girl Rappers with sister Sandra. The pair scored a number six int he UK ...

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 ...

In the 1980s scratching was one of the main features of the emerging turntablist artform and a staple of hip hop music. Herbie Hancock’s 1983 single “Rockit” is perhaps the most influential ...