All of it relates to the early '80s hip-hop scene in North Jersey ... "You have all these artists here who might not have had national fame, but they were known locally," Glover said.

Jazz also had a hand in shaping hip-hop to what the genre has become today, though its impact wasn’t fully realized until the 80s, when artists began rapping over jazz melodies. Drawing ...

But what I found most surprising was that mentions went back further than the '90s… and even the '80s. Released in 1979, "Rapper's Delight" is arguably the first commercially successful hip-hop ...

Igmar Thomas’ ensemble bridges eras of Black American music with the soul-stirring project, ‘Like A Tree It Grows.’ ...

The 2025 edition, titled Power to the Poets, will highlight the enduring legacy of hip-hop as a force for truth, resistance ...

It was a Wild West scenario in the '80s that eventually ... A History of Hip-Hop Sampling will include performances by Monmouth University Blue Hawk Records students and artists, and multimedia ...

The first hip-hop record is widely thought to be Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang, which was recorded in 1979. In the 1970s and 80s, lyrics often focused on social issues, giving young ...