The '80s were a particularly unique decade in music history. The decade gave birth to MTV, and with it epic music videos that stand as iconic to this day. It was when hip-hop, synth pop ...

Over the weekend, Co-caine 80s blessed the Internets in the form ... Instead, the Jhene Aiko and Common-assisted jam is just one of seven songs to ...

Hip-Hop to House. Dylan Jones compiles some of the key hip-hop and house performances of the 80s. We’re sorry, the information you’re looking for isn’t ...

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 ...

Lean more about the diverse history of hip-hop with Meaning in Music, a five-part video series from the Smithsonian ... History and Culture Pair of white and black Run-D.M.C. Superstar 80s sneakers ...

He invented the term 'New Jack Swing' and wrote the scripts for 'New Jack City', 'Above the Rim', and 'Sugar Hill'.

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 ... and the music often included drum machines and ...

The roots of hip-hop and house music both lie in the seismic shifts of the late 1970s, a period of sociopolitical unrest and electronic experimentation that redefined the possibilities of sound. For ...