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"I just wanna know when Led Zeppelin's gonna be in the Hip-Hop Hall Of Fame." Kiss legend Gene Simmons rants about hip-hop being in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, EDM being "easy" and more

Turns out Gene still isn't happy about hip-hop being in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

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“I just wanna know when Led Zeppelin's gonna be in the Hip-Hop Hall Of Fame. 'Oh, you can't do that?' Oh, really?”: Gene Simmons mouths off on The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the lack of talent required to make EDM and the state of modern music

“There are no tribute bands to Skrillex” he argues

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‘It’s been called the greatest hip-hop film ever’: how we made cult graffiti classic Wild Style

‘I handed a guy a starting pistol for a stick-up scene. But instead he reached into his car and took out the sawn-off shotgun you see in the movie’

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‘Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Ice Cube – I’m from that late-70s, early-80s era, so I like those kinds of raps’ John Barnes reveals the one rap song he wished he’d been asked to perform on

Former England winger Barnes rhymed himself into music folklore with his iconic rap on New Order’s ‘World in Motion’, but reveals he was never asked to perform on other records

FourFourTwo

“We set out to put our thoughts and musical ideas out there, hoping they’d be appreciated. That’s proved to be true”: Sampled by Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul and the Fugees, Cymande shaped the sound of hip-hop. Now they’re back to claim their legacy

Cymande’s influence on hip-hop culture is huge. But with new album Renascence, the spotlight returns to the funk institution, and Patrick Patterson is here to play

Guitar World

“We were always going to try to break boundaries and try new things”: It was the first No.1 pop single to feature rapping - and it came from Debbie Harry and Blondie

“Some people loved it, and some people hated it,” recalled drummer Clem Burke

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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys.

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Keith Leblanc, Influential Hip-Hop Drummer And Producer, Dies At 69

Keith LeBlanc, a pioneering drummer and producer in hip-hop, passed away at 69. His impact on music history will be remembered and celebrated for years to ...

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Best podcasts of the week: Curb Your Enthusiasm’s stars embark on a 120-episode cringe-along

In this week’s newsletter: Jeff Garlin and Susie Essman break down every episode of the epic sitcom in The History of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Plus: five of the best climate crisis podcasts

The Guardian - UK

808s, MPCs and Auto-Tune: The story of hip-hop production in 10 iconic bits of gear

Hip-hop's evolution is intertwined at every turn with the development of music technology. As the genre turns 50, we chart its five-decade history through ten influential pieces of music-making kit

MusicRadar

50 years of hip hop: Our culture producer presents four-part series

Our culture team has recorded a four-part series in New York and Paris to trace hip hop’s journey from the streets of the Bronx in the 1970s to becoming the most popular and lucrative music genre in the world. From meeting the godfather of hip hop, Grandmaster Flash in his…

France 24

Hip-hop at 50: Back to the Bronx, where it all began (part 1)

This week we're celebrating 50 years since the birth of hip-hop. More than a musical genre, it’s a global phenomenon. Business, sport, fashion, politics – hip-hop influences it all. Our culture team has recorded a four-part series in New York and Paris to trace its journey from the streets of…

France 24

Fifty years of hip hop

Its widely accepted birth date is 11 August 1973, when a now legendary party was thrown in a community room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, a tower block in the Bronx, New York. It was organised by Cindy Campbell, a Jamaican-born teenager, who charged 25 cents for ladies and 50 cents…

The Week

It’s a rap: what are the greatest hip-hop movies?

The genre, which turns 50 this month, has led to surprisingly few movies but the best include a black-and-white comedy and a starry documentary

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Hip-hop at 50: how the sights, sounds and moves of the music spread across the world

On August 11 1973, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw the now legendary Back To School jam in the recreation room of 1520 Sedgewick Avenue in The Bronx, New York.

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“I invented this DJ technology, I did this with nothing”: Grandmaster Flash on turntablism, Rapture and Wheels Of Steel

The pioneering DJ reveals how he built sound systems from junk and what he thought of Blondie's Rapture: "Shit, she kept her word!"

The Independent UK

From Killer Mike to Fat Joe, hip-hop stars talk about how first rap song resonated with them

Remember the first rap song you heard

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Queen Latifah, Chuck D and more rap legends on 'Rapper's Delight' and their early hip-hop influences

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Rapper Melle Mel charged with domestic violence

MC with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is alleged to have punched a woman in the eye in a hotel room

Los Angeles Times

'I was levitating': Rapper Busta Rhymes on his show-stopping Grammys performance

The Grammys honored 50 years of hip-hop on Sunday with a medley from dozens of stars past and present, ranging from Grandmaster Flash to Lil Uzi Vert. But it was a 50-year-old, Brooklyn's Busta Rhymes, who stole the show.

Los Angeles Times

Hip-hop’s greats unite to salute the genre’s 50th anniversary at 2023 Grammys

LOS ANGELES — Once shunned by the Recording Academy, the 2023 Grammy Awards paid homage to 50 years of hip-hop history on Sunday with performances by influential artists from the genre’s past, present and future.

Evening Standard

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World on BBC Two sheds new light on the genre

This Chuck D led documentary is a fascinating look at how the music genre has fought for change

WEKU

The rapper Kidd Creole is sentenced to 16 years over a fatal stabbing

Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.

The Independent UK

Rapper Kidd Creole sentenced to 16 years for fatal stabbing

Rapper Kidd Creole has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City

Daily Mirror

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five eighties hip hop star found guilty of manslaughter

Hip hop pioneer Nathaniel Glover killed 55-year-old John Jolly during an argument in Manhattan in August 2017 and faces a maximum of 25 years in prison

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