When Kendrick Lamar took center stage at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, his entrance wasn’t just about spectacle, it was ...
There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...
But long before this resurgence, one of the earliest jazz-infused Hip-Hop albums, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), was released by Brooklyn-based trio Digable Planets on this day in 1993 ...
By the early 1980s, both genres had found their feet. Hip-hop emerged as a powerful voice for storytelling, resistance and identity. Building on the foundations laid down by DJ Kool Herc ...
Advertisement Article continues below this ad Hip-hop and house both have their origins in the 1970s and early 1980s – in fact, they recently celebrated a 50th and 40th birthday, respectively.