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Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap's "Exit" From Billboard's Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

The highest appearance by a hip-hop song is YoungBoy Never Broke Again's "Shot Callin," at No. 44. Yet in 1990, hip-hop was ...
Rolling Stone

LL Cool J Takes a Trip Through NYC Rap History in New ‘Hip-Hop Was Born Here’ Trailer

LL Cool J digs into how New York City shaped the creation and evolution of rap in the new trailer for the upcoming docuseries, Hip-Hop Was Born Here. The five-part series will offer a kind of ...
Yahoo

Raekwon Explains How an Old Folk Tale Inspired His New Album & Why He’s Concerned for the State of Hip-Hop: ‘I Feel Like It Ain’t Authentic No More’

Raekwon says he often gets asked to explain what constitutes real hip-hop. As one of the founding members of Wu-Tang Clan, and as one of New York hip-hop’s long reigning titans, it’s hard not to ask ...