The Story Of Hip-Hop’s Creation
Last night (November 2), Crazy Legs, founder of the Rock Steady Crew, shared a video on his Facebook. At the pioneering…
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Bomb Da City
Breve contributo scritto per la pubblicazione Rebel Writing Operation, volume indipendente pubblicato dal CS Cantiere. “Tra gli elementi associati alla…
Unstoppable@HipHopArchive
The Birth of Hip Hop in the South Bronx in The 1970s is no Secret… Few know the effect it…
Travel Back To 1983
Thirty-two years ago, Hip-Hop was emerging on a host of record labels large and small. However, while these 12″ singles…
Making Peace With Big Bank Hank
Grandmaster Caz, aka Casanova Fly, remembers the old friend who “borrowed” his name and lyrics for “Rapper’s Delight”. When I…
How Run-D.M.C. Changed the Rap Game
Here’s a piece by cultural critic Nelson George on the pages of Billboard. – Though rap had been selling records and…
The Birth Of Def Jam
In this Rolling Stone interview, Def Jam founder and legendary producer Rick Rubin returns to the New York University dorm…
The Triumphs and Tragedies of Larry Smith
Remember when Run declared to the world that “Larry put me inside his Cadillac” on Run-DMC’s breakthrough single “Sucker MCs”? That very…
How Hip Hop Got Its Name
The origins of the phrase go deeper than Sugarhill Gang. Hip-hop — they were the first words on the genre’s first big hit,…
Founding Fathers
Founding Fathers is a fascinating and at times controversial history of DJs/emcees/promoters in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, and their roles in…