3 Songs That Sample Martin Luther King Jr. 1. “The King (Extended Vocal Mix)” (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five kept things simple while ...
Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté is set to become the first solo female MC to receive the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Recording Academy recently revealed that the rapper, who rose ...
Hip-hop legends Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Salt-N-Pepa, and N.W.A. have received the award in previous years. Now, it’s Shanté’s turn. Speaking with Gayle ...
There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...
Tracks like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” vividly depicted the reality of living in poor, urban communities, while Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” and Tupac ...
Hip-Hop has evolved tremendously in its 50 years of existence. Technology is one of the main factors that help the art form move forward.