Revolt names Nas' 'NY State of Mind' the greatest hip-hop intro of all time

The track remains one of the most influential and celebrated songs in rap history.
Okayplayer

The Mixtape Museum's Regan Sommer McCoy Talks Hip-Hop History on ‘The Almanac of Rap’

From DJ Clue and DJ Screw to streaming platforms and AI, Donwill and Regan Sommer McCoy explore the evolution of mixtape ...
Los Angeles Times

When Questlove says hip-hop is ‘history,’ he means it in more ways than one

Questlove, the accomplished musician, filmmaker and author, most recently of “Hip-Hop Is History,” is no doubt aware that his title cuts more than one way. It indicates both that hip-hop is a ...
ABC7 San Francisco

50 Years of Hip Hop: The Bronx and Beyond | Full Special

Hip-hop was born 50 years ago in the Bronx, just north of Yankee Stadium. Friday, September 1, 2023 BRONX, New York -- It was 50 years ago in an apartment building in the Bronx, about a mile and a ...
Wired

The Hip Hop Historians Who Are Racing to Preserve Its Story

Brandon “Jinx” Jenkins rode his bike to Kmart after school. It was 2000 and he was 13 years old, but he wanted Ludacris’ debut album, Back for the First Time. When he got there, he had to convince the ...

Donwill on the Almanac of Rap, hip-hop memory and the lost art of context

The rapper/podcast host reflects on message boards, digital archiving and why the internet once invited listeners to dig deeper.
The Source

TodayIn Hip Hop History: ‘Soul Plane’ Debuted In Theaters 22 Years Ago

Twenty two years later, Soul Plane remains one of those films that people either love, hate, or secretly quote when nobody is ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Hip Hop turns 50: Looking at Boston's influence on the genre

As Hip Hop celebrates its 50 years of influence on music and culture, UMass Boston gives us local context with the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, housed in the Joseph P. Healy Library at UMass. The ...
The Grio

Questlove proposes a fascinating way of looking at hip-hop’s past in his new book, ‘Hip-Hop Is History’

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. In Questlove’s fascinating new book “Hip-Hop Is History,” he rewrites hip ...
The Source Magazine

Today In Hip Hop History: 45 Years Ago Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” Became Hip-Hop’s First Top 40 Hit

On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...
Uproxx

Questlove’s Next Book, ‘Hip-Hop Is History’ Will Drop Early Next Year To Commemorate 50 Years Of Hip-Hop

Back in 2021, Questlove wrote Music Is History, an encyclopedia of sorts of significant moments in music for every year since his birth. Now, with 50th anniversary celebrations for hip-hop going on, ...
Yahoo

The Graphic History of Hip Hop — The Comic Novel!

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The civil rights laws and the assassinations that happened in 1968 lays the foundation for the desire for something new, ...