The '80s was hip-hop's Wild West. These 10 essential Golden Era albums defined the genre and still hit like a brick today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I REMEMBER WHEN RAP WAS YOUNG In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the ...

This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

The Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx. But here, too, hip-hop happened. "It was just a general rink, a skating rink, but everybody wanted to ...

While they’ve certainly had their ups and downs, the ladies behind the icon rap group Salt-N-Pepa say they’ve never missed a beat. Now, every step they took on their way to becoming music legends can ...

Rapper and Producer Prince Markie Dee (Mark Morales) of The Fat Boys has died at the age of 52. Getty Images Prince Markie Dee of the iconic 80s hip-hop group The Fat Boys has died at the age of 52, a ...

Iconic ‘80s Rap Legend Just Dropped the Sweetest Taylor Swift Story Ever originally appeared on Parade. Flava Flav just delivered the kind of unexpected crossover story that proves music truly has no ...

Kid Rock's big hit "Bawitdaba" sounds like a lot of gibberish — successful gibberish — but did you know that he actually took the title and part of the lyric from an '80s rap song? The track is one of ...

Any conversation regarding the historical context of rap music will almost certainly rely heavily on the near ritualistic practice of sampling, essentially using older songs as the basis as the basis ...

The hip-hop community has lost another pioneering emcee in the rap game. Rapper Chuck Freeze, of the 1980s rap group Jazzy 5 (or Jazzy Five), has passed away at the age of 54. According to The New ...

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...