Hip-Hop And You Do Stop is a series chronicling Nathan Rabin’s deep love for (and growing estrangement from) hip-hop through the filter of golden-age and ’90s hip-hop. Each entry documents a year in ...

Once Ted Demme and Peter Dougherty's "Yo! MTV Raps" went daily in March 1989, the hip-hop floodgates opened. The ratings were sky-high, forcing labels to court every kid in every major city with a mic ...

Somewhere between the time DJ Kool Herc got the party started in the 1970s and LL Cool J’s star turn on MTV Unplugged in 1991, hip-hop went mainstream. First it conquered the ‘burbs. Then it went ...

Anyone who's ever claimed that hip-hop saved pop music now has some evidence to back up their theories. Academic Dr Matthias Mauch and his team have published a study which identifies three different ...

On this day in 1991, the soundtrack to the cult-classic crime thriller, New Jack City, was released. The story of the rise and fall of Nino Brown and the Cash Money Brothers has continued to inspire ...

A bunch of researchers in the UK have applied a scientific approach to figure out what type of music has the biggest impact in America. They boiled it down to just three distinct periods in which a ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting November 5th, 1991 - Buy Dance Express: Hip Hop Club Dancing DVD ...