The Roots' 1996 video for 'What They Do,' from Illadelph Halflife, satirized hip-hop video cliches, using on-screen captions to mock ...

'Top Billin'' by Brooklyn brother duo Audio Two, Milk Dee and Gizmo, became one of hip-hop's most recognizable and heavily ...

Tracy 168, born Michael Tracy in 1958 in New York City, is a graffiti pioneer who began writing in the ...

Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson was a 21-year-old Compton Crip widely identified by law enforcement, and later by his uncle Keefe ...

1988 is widely hailed as hip-hop's greatest single year, a 'class' that produced an extraordinary run of classic albums. From ...

A Salt with a Deadly Pepa (1988) was Salt-N-Pepa's second album, following their breakthrough Hot, Cool & Vicious. As a ...