(Image credit: Getty Images) In its 50 years the genre has helped bring awareness, social change and empowerment. Candace McDuffie explores the ground-breaking records that have made a…
Read more Hip-hop tracks that changed the worldHip-hop lyrics have long declared the importance of fashion in the genre. In 1992, Mary J Blige released What’s the 411? as part of her debut album of…
Read more Hip-hop’s rise to the top of fashion(Image credit: Getty Images) As hip-hop turns 50, Arwa Haider traces the verbal pioneers who forged a path long before 1973, from jazz “hep cat” Slim Gaillard to…
Read more Eight forgotten forerunners of hip-hop, from jazz ‘hep cat’ Slim Gaillard to ‘dirty blues’ singer Lucille Bogan
