Ja Rule and Juvenile recently sat down on Hip-Hop Wired’s exclusive series ‘I Got Questions’. The two rap legends chop it up ...

Ben Mendelsohn, Tom Hanks, Jay Ellis, and Normani also star in the new 'Pulp Fiction'-style anthology from the directors of ...

All of it relates to the early '80s hip-hop scene in North Jersey. Some names and and faces will be familiar. Others were known mainly to Bergen clubgoers of 40 years ago. Those are the people ...

Hip-hop might have been birthed in the ‘80s; however it wasn't until the ‘90s when the genre started to take off. It was an era of legends like Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, and more who ...

Over the weekend, Co-caine 80s blessed the Internets in the form of a new EP, The Flower of Life. With No I.D. and James Fauntleroy at the helm, the otherwise ambiguous group dropped “Fly A ...

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The first hip-hop record is widely thought to be Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang, which was recorded in 1979. In the 1970s and 80s, lyrics often focused on social issues, giving young ...

But what I found most surprising was that mentions went back further than the '90s… and even the '80s. Released in 1979, "Rapper's Delight" is arguably the first commercially successful hip-hop ...