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 hip-hop fashion, the book's title is a play on words ... coincided with the rise of a nascent genre of music called hip-hop. By the mid-1980s, Public Enemy and EPMD were making names for ...

Maradona embodied a lot of what the 1980s stood for ... Films such as Step Up and Honey demonstrated the impact of hip-hop culture on fashion, with low-rise jeans and trainers key components ...

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 ...

Nichols has been documenting Toronto's hip-hop scene since the 1980s, and has extensive connections ... basketball shoe is a staple of hip-hop fashion in St. Louis. The shoes became part of ...