To say that music is a major part of our culture would be an understatement. From the ’50s to the modern day, music fans have ...

Close your eyes and picture the '80s. You probably see neon headbands and hear thick layers of synthesizers — but it wasn't all sad British guys with keyboards. '80s music has a rich lineage ranging ...

Pepa always knows how to make an entrance The 58-year-old member of the iconic rap trio Salt-N-Pepa, whose real name is ...

Looking back on his storied career, Ice-T reflected on his rise from underground MC to full-blown cultural pioneer.

Wasn’t life better in the 1980s? More optimism? More vibrancy? More adventure? We sure think so. So come on down and take a ...

Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, and Robert Cray got together for Showdown! – a bona-fide blues classic, and, as Cray tells ...

If you listened to hip-hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was all about Eric ... he told Uptown in an interview. In the late 80s, rapping was just a hobby for Wyandanch, Long Island native ...

The early, exciting days of hip-hop, musically and culturally were first ... first fully "hip-hop" movie (besides Wild Style in the '80s). Directed by Hype Williams, who was known for his video ...

Last November, popular early aughts ... When I think about hip-hop, I often think about Motown. I grew up in Detroit and by the time I’m coming up in the ’70s and ’80s, it’s in its review ...

In those first, flush days of the '80s, Bergen County was teeming ... But Bergen, in those early days, had one thing that the the rappers and scratchers from the Bronx could only dream of.

All of it relates to the early '80s hip-hop scene in North Jersey. Some names and and faces will be familiar. Others were known mainly to Bergen clubgoers of 40 years ago. Those are the people ...

While hip-hop is far more commonly associated with ... the team worked on dozens of recordings throughout the ‘80s and early ‘90s. Tackhead actually signed with the U.S. major label SBK ...