Listen to the top 20 hip-hop songs - as voted by the 1Xtra audience on the Rap Show with Tiffany Calver. Tiffany, Lethal Bizzle and podcaster Chris Mitchell explore the global growth and impact of ...

Rather than simply a genre, hip-hop is a culture – one chiefly expressed and disseminated through rap music. That notion of “keeping it real” – has been at its core. As ever with popular ...

The 1990s is often referred to as the golden age of hip-hop. During that era, rap music gained more attention from mainstream audiences, regional music such as East Coast vs. West Coast was ...

Everyone knows that one of the most important aspects of a party is having great music that can get people on the dance floor. Hip-hop's inception came from house parties hosted in the Bronx in ...

This 1988 hit made it to the top of the US and UK rap and hip-hop charts. It even made it to no. 36 on the Hot 100 in the US. The duo released a couple of subsequent songs that year that did ...

Hip-hop originated in the Bronx area of New York ... The beat was almost always in 4/4 time, and the music often included drum machines and synthesizers.