J.B. Moore, a key contributor to some of hip-hop’s earliest hits, died in Manhattan on March 13 of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. “One of the interesting things about our partnership,” Moore said of ...

Any conversation regarding the historical context of rap music will almost certainly rely heavily on the near ritualistic practice of sampling, essentially using older songs as the basis as the basis ...

The early ’80s were not exactly the best time for love and romance in rap. And with good reason. Most of the rappers, in a genre that was just 10 years old, were male and fresh out of puberty (if not ...

On this date 45 years ago, Blondie released “Rapture,” a genre bending single that quietly became one of the most important ...

Early rap didn’t have a single sound. It had a dozen scenes growing at once: park jams, radio hits, battle rhymes, party records, and crews trying to be louder than the next block over. That’s why ...