By All Means Necessary (Jive/RCA, 1988) was Boogie Down Productions' second album, recorded after co-founder Scott La Rock's murder. Led ...

Goin' Off (Cold Chillin', 1988) was Biz Markie's debut album and a Juice Crew classic. Powered by Marley Marl's production ...

Released in 1987 on his debut Rhyme Pays, Ice-T's '6 in the Mornin'' is widely credited as a defining record ...

'Dun language' is the distinctive Queensbridge slang popularized by Mobb Deep, built around the term 'dun' as a greeting for ...

The Kangol bucket hat became an essential hip-hop fashion statement in the 1980s, completing the era's b-boy uniform of velour ...

The hi-top fade was the defining hip-hop haircut of the late 1980s and early 1990s: closely faded sides supporting a ...