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“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

MusicRadar

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.

The Conversation

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…

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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

The Guardian - US

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.

The Conversation

“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!"

MusicRadar

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

The Independent UK

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

Remember the first rap song you heard

The Independent UK

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

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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.

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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

The Independent UK

Kidd Creole convicted of manslaughter in 2017 stabbing

A Manhattan jury has found rapper Kidd Creole guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 2017 fatal stabbing of a homeless man on the street

The Independent UK

Kidd Creole's murder trial opens with self-defense claim

The trial of rapper Kidd Creole has begun in New York City with his lawyer telling a jury it was self-defense when the hip-hop pioneer stabbed a homeless man to death in 2017

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