The Sugarhill Gang

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 3/29/13

Please get out and do something. Your roommates are worried about you.

'Freestyle and Old-School Extravaganza'

Rolling Stone's Top 50 Rap Songs of All Time: Six Alternative Number One Picks

Rolling Stone recently published a run-down of the top 50 hip-hop songs of all time. After consulting with a panel of 33 journalists, industry figures and artists (including professional rap encyclopedia ?uestlove and the remaining members of the Beastie Boys), the numbers were crunched and Grandmas ... More >>

12 Tracks, Two And A Half Hours: Sound Of The City's Mixtape Of Long Rap Songs

Last week, the new Gorillaz track "DoYaThing" dropped. It's long—a full 13-minutes and some seconds of music, a lot of which involves Andre 3000 getting frenzied and inspired with that rapping thing he does so well. With "DoYaThing" and persistent talk about Outkast reunion rumors bedazzling u ... More >>

People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

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The doc days aren’t over

Live: Blitz The Ambassador Reps For His Homelands At Lincoln Center

Andree Lamoth​ Blitz the Ambassador and Spoek Mathambo w/Mshini Wam Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center Sunday, August 7 Better than: An evening spinning old soul records. "Don't forget that I'm from Ghana, yo. D'you know how far that is?" Samuel Bazawule, the Brooklyn-based MC better known as ... More >>

100 & Single: The Dawning Of The MTV Era And How It Rocket-Fueled The Hot 100

​What was the first rock and roll song? Ask music historians and you'll get a range of '40s and early '50 candidates, from "Good Rockin' Tonight" to "Rocket 88." Ah, but when did the Rock Era begin? That's easier. Everybody knows that Bill Haley and His Comets' rendition of "Rock Around the C ... More >>

Ten Hip-Hop Covers Of Rap Songs

​Last week, the Detroit-based rapper and one-time J Dilla collaborator Elzhi released Elmatic. It's the second time a rapper has re-written and re-made Nas's hallowed Illmatic, with Fashawn attempting a similar feat last year. As a listening experience, Elmatic is less than convincing, leaving ... More >>

The Real Sugar Hill Records Story: In-House Drummer Keith Le Blanc on the Myths Surrounding Rap's First Label

​"I don't think the true Sugar Hill Records story has ever been told because there's so much skull-duggery attached to it," says Keith Le Blanc, the one-time in-house drummer for Sugar Hill Records. The pioneering New York label, which brought hip-hop to the world's ears in 1979 with the Sugar ... More >>

The Slow Redemption of DJ Disco Wiz

Hip-hop's first prominent Latino DJ offers a grisly but triumphant memoir

Remembering Mel Cheren, the 'Godfather of Disco'

Diddy's Little Helpers

Why hip-hop ghostwriting is an art now, and an actually respectable one

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Video Game Music Supervisor: Best Job Ever?

Music

Rap, Rage, REDvolution

As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

I Said Ignoramus, Not Dummie

Guess What, America, We Love You

Hip-Hop Goes Commercial

Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

Generation Hiphop's Aesthetics

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Fool’s Paradise

Ian Dury 1942–2000

Avoiding the Grave With Mr. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Not Only Built 4 Cuban Bronx

La Revolución embraces Hip-Hop—with Fidel’s blessing

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