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In 1980 Kurtis Blow became the first rapper to prove that a career in rap was even possible. Blessed with a booming, elastic, singsong voice, he became the first MC to sign with a major label in 1979—hot on the heels of the "Rappers Delight" phenomenon—and dropped the hit single "C...
Queen Latifah was one of the most influential 80s female rappers. She encouraged her people to love one another and had an eloquent rap style that set her apart from other 80s rappers. She was also one of the firstwhite female rappersto make it big in the 80s rap scene. She released he...
So let’s break it down: the 200 best songs of the Eighties, music’s most insane decade. The hits, the deep cuts, the fan favorites. A mix tape of pop classics, rockers, rappers, soul divas, New Wavers, disco jams, country twangers, punk ragers, dance-floor anthems, smooth operator...
In 1980 Kurtis Blow became the first rapper to prove that a career in rap was even possible. Blessed with a booming, elastic, singsong voice, he became the first MC to sign with a major label in 1979—hot on the heels of the "Rappers Delight" phenomenon—and dropped the hit single "...
Sexuality was always central to Salt-N-Pepa’s music, but it was far from the only thing occupying the rappers’ attention on Hot, Cool & Vicious. Tracks like “Beauty and the Beat” and “My Mic Sounds Nice,” odes to the joy of women believing in themselves and each other enough to...
With "I Cry (Night After Night)", Egyptian Lover not only paved the way for the sad robot music that the likes of Kanye West and Future would go on to push farther and into weirder territory, he also helped establish a trope that rappers still employ to this day: the sad-sack ...
These rappers can rock, showing some serious hardcore skills when they picked up their instruments and pushed everyone’s pulses to race with the 1994 single “Sabotage” from theirIll Communicationalbum. The ‘70s cop show parody video was a huge smash on MTV, while the song shot onto alt-...
…mainstream America not only got a vivid picture of a whole other world, but fellow rappers also realized they had a real platform for speaking the truth and subsequently affecting some change. It was, after all, called “The Message” for a reason… ...