Until now, few have heard the set by iconic Hoosier trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played a Bronx club co-owned by a Sugar ...

which was owned by Sylvia Robinson, whose Sugar Hill Records would pioneer recorded hip-hop a decade later. The well-recorded and transferred sets capture two hard bop trumpet masters, still atop ...

In an assuming gallery just outside of downtown Detroit, a major exhibit documenting the past 50 years of hip-hop is a show you shouldn’t miss. Like the genre itself, “ Hip Hop Evolution: Celebrating ...

Bush becomes the first woman artist to achieve a No. 1 hit for an entirely self-written song. 1979: Sylvia Robinson opens the door to hip-hop In the fall of 1979, Sylvia Robinson, who co-owned Sugar ...

Carlito Rodriguez and Malcolm Spellman, writers on the hit Fox series “Empire,” have been tapped to pen a biopic about late Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson, an influential rap ...

The “mother of hip hop” needs no other introduction. Sylvia Robinson founded her label Sugar Hill Records in 1979 with her husband Joe and during her tenure as CEO, Robinson produced some of ...

Sylvia Wallace, left, and Lydia Dercksen ... “I do still have to take dance center classes whether it’s ballet, jazz, tap or hip-hop. It’s just like technique classes and then rehearsals on the ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate ...

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