Before there was the flood of “gangsta” rap and fabricated “bling bling” there was hip-hop. In an effort to pay tribute to the fundamental artists who began and shaped the hip-hop movement, Tommy Boy ...

Hip-Hop Wired compiled a grouping of Hip-Hop Essentials, which will be an evergreen and ever-changing playlist of songs from the genre across the decades and how we should learn to recognize and ...

“Rapper’s Delight” will always be considered the song that introduced hip-hop to the masses. The Sugarhill Gang classic with its tongue-twisting opening – “I said a-hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to ...