These hip-hop one-hit wonders are cultural standards in the modern age, and they hit the music world hard back in the day.

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

It also serves as a precursor to the style indicators that Black female rappers would lean on in the forthcoming decade, the 1980s. In this era the ubiquitous influence of hip hop became largely ...

Lawrence was one-half of the U.K. hip-hop duo, which also featured her sister, Sandra Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

NWA's landmark album Straight Outta Compton was released on 8 August 1988, bringing the sound of gangsta rap to mainstream America. In History revisits an interview with the young rap crew as they ...

Thomas Pough, better known as DJ Polo, who was a member of the Juice Crew and one-half of the duo Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, died on Saturday. He was 63. One of his children announced the news in an ...

It may be a reckless exercise to try and list 25 rap albums memorable for the controversy they induced. Since the mid-Eighties, after the genre slowly evolved from a mostly 12-inch medium to one ...

Some rappers might even pretend to be rich ... This Hidden Gem Explored the Dark Side of Virtual Reality 80s rock legend dies aged 75 Autry Stephens, Who Agreed to Sell His Oil Company for ...

Mark Ross, aka Brother Marquis, one of the members of the rap group 2 Live Crew, has died at the age of 58. His death was announced on the group’s social media accounts but the posts did not ...

DJ Spydermann said: ‘Brother Marquis was one of the dopest rappers to ever do it. ‘He shined on other people’s projects when he got a chance to just straight up drop bars outside of the ...

In the '80s, hip-hop hit the mainstream ... which made them the first female rap group to earn a Platinum record. They would become one of the bestselling rap groups of all time.