Word: hip-hop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes how the violence and rage of NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” during the crack epidemic changed hip-hop dramatically, leading to the rise of G-funk and East Coast-West Coast...
...traveling all over the world and just seeing different people from different nationalities that don’t speak English be knowing our records, that’s amazing to me. You can to go a country that they don’t know no English but they know hip-hop, you know what I mean? And they know my hip-hop, so it feels good to have that kind of effect on people...
...read on your Web site that you think “Cuban Linx” is the “Scarface” of hip-hop albums, which is a pretty bold claim. Do you ever have moments of doubt or are you always that confident? R: Nah, I’m always confident. But you know, I’m human, it be times when I panic, it could be a big game and you start sweatin’. That don’t mean you don’t feel like you gon’ win, it?...
...rock artist Gavin DeGraw will be sharing the stage at the College’s third annual Yardfest with the hip-hop ensemble Wu-Tang Clan, according to group member Raekwon...
...Staten Island, New-York-based hip-hop group got its start in 1993, initially as a loose affiliation of nine rappers. According to the group’s official Web site, Wu-Tang aimed to make their mark as a group and then pursue solo projects with some fame under their belts...