Hip-Hop And You Do Stop is a series chronicling Nathan Rabin’s deep love for (and growing estrangement from) hip-hop through the filter of golden-age and ’90s hip-hop. Each entry documents a year in ...

Isaac Hayes III alerts 1991 hip-hop and R&B artists about reclaiming publishing and master rights in 2026. Act now or lose ...

Somewhere between the time DJ Kool Herc got the party started in the 1970s and LL Cool J’s star turn on MTV Unplugged in 1991, hip-hop went mainstream. First it conquered the ‘burbs. Then it went ...

On this day in 1991, the soundtrack to the cult-classic crime thriller, New Jack City, was released. The story of the rise and fall of Nino Brown and the Cash Money Brothers has continued to inspire ...

Anyone who's ever claimed that hip-hop saved pop music now has some evidence to back up their theories. Academic Dr Matthias Mauch and his team have published a study which identifies three different ...

A bunch of researchers in the UK have applied a scientific approach to figure out what type of music has the biggest impact in America. They boiled it down to just three distinct periods in which a ...

Released on September 24, 1991, A Tribe Called Quest‘s The Low End Theory is the quintessential moment where hip-hop let its jazz muse fly. Others – most notably Gang Starr – had explored fusions ...

“It’s sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten.” That’s how Naughty by Nature’s lyrics describe the word pussy in their 1991 hip-hop classic “O.P.P.” That radio-friendly explanation is what ...