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It's all of the acceptable nostalgia us '90s-era fools have left. They can keep rap from the '80s like Sugarhill Gang's "Apache," though. That stuff is ripe for the Dad-Rap pickins.
The Roots’ Questlove explained why 90s Hip-Hop is so important to understanding Black music. Quest was featured on a recent episode of Pitchfork’s Over/Under series. While there were no ...
Continue reading Golden Age of Hip-Hop and Best in ’90s Hip Hop Fashion. Imagine getting a birthday invitation to dress like rappers in 2025. What exactly do you even wear?
Vince Staples is 22 years old. He was born in 1993. When Illmatic and Ready To Die came out, he was a baby. Staples made one of the best rap albums of the year, by any metric. He put it together ...
Guest: Chris Schwartz. Philadelphia native CHRIS SCHWARTZ had all the ingredients to become successful in the music industry; an eye for talent, an ear for music, and a head for business. His record ...
We drew from each decade’s biggest hits, but some genres were inevitably underrepresented: Hits from ’80s and early ’90s rap, for example, rarely got the radio play required to make a major ...
For some reason, I swear I had already used this song as a '90s hip-hop jam. IT TURNS OUT I WAS WRONG. This oversight is being corrected immediately.
Kris Kross rap duo member Chris Kelly, in circle. CBS Atlanta (CBS/AP) ATLANTA - Chris Kelly, known for being part of the 90's rap duo Kris Kross, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in ...
Remembering When ’90s Hip-Hop Beefs Turned Fatal While he would survive that shooting and wouldn’t be killed until two years later, the Quad Studios shooting ratcheted up the so-called East ...
The tough New York rap and West Coast gangsta rap that dominated the ’90s continued into the early 2000s, but they eventually made way for other scenes and subgenres to take over.