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In today’s episode of Billboard Unfiltered, Billboard staffers Carl Lamarre, Trevor Anderson, and Kyle Denis give their ...
One such artist that contemporary music fans are looking forward to is Hanumankind, an Indian hip hop artist who recently took over global music charts ... can expect the introduction more ...
With just under four months left in 2024, there have already been more hip-hop songs to top Billboard‘s Hot 100 Songs (and as many rap albums on the 200 albums chart) than in all of 2023 ...
The memoir dishes on Eve's rise in the hip-hop world. EVE ... the first lady of Ruff Ryders, chart-topping hits and collabs all over the place. You might recognize this one.
Not long after, the record reached Top 10 on the rap charts and later ... a former hip hop artist, who enlivened the space with the introduction of the Entertainers Basketball Classic in 1982.
As the legendary cultural ambassador Fab 5 Freddy notes in his introduction, hip-hop’s global takeover began ... he wasn’t top of the charts, he wasn’t any of that. He was just an ill ...
The first rap track to ever land on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, “Rapper’s Delight” was an introduction to hip-hop for mainstream audiences. Released in September of 1979, the song included ...
While the extent of the Jamaican (and wider Caribbean) influence on the formation of hip hop is often debated ... That’s the famous introduction by Special Ed on his breakthrough song ...
“Rapper’s Delight” will always be considered the song that introduced hip-hop to the masses ... Step Ahead”) served as an intriguing introduction to the Brooklyn rapper known as Yasiin ...