"Funky Drummer" by Clyde Stubblefield shaped hip-hop and pop, yet the most sampled drummer in music history died unpaid and overlooked.

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There has been a lot of talk about Hip-hop since it dropped from the top of the charts over the past few years. Country music ...

In terms of artistic advancement, many rap fans would probably not consider Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” a genre-shifting single. However, regarding popular appeal, they probably would, as it was the ...

The current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That’s 35 years ago, when George Bush the first was in the White House, when ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music. By Alex Williams When Marcyliena H.

*The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. Billboard links some of this change to new ...