However, by the time the 1980s rolled around, hip-hop started seeing a lot more commercial appeal, with hit songs hitting mainstream audiences, the creation of subgenres, and elevated sound ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zapp & Roger - More Bounce to the Ounce Zapp & Roger had their first big hit with 1980's “More Bounce ... sound had a huge impact on hip-hop, with many of his songs getting love from the ...

If that was a true "death" for music in this city, then the 1980 opening of Future Funk Records ... studio that was designed for recording hip-hop artists," Dale says. "Rappers didn't have ...

Hip-hop fashion is a bold and expressive style rooted in the music genre and street culture, often featuring oversized clothing, bold graphic tees, hoodies, baggy jeans, and athletic wear.

For four decades, hip-hop producer and DJ “Prince Paul” Huston has created rap music with wit, fearlessness and imagination.

He was 81. Though not well-known today, Moore was instrumental in hip-hop’s early mainstream success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he helped produce and write records for Kurtis Blow ...