The Boombox

How ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ Launched Hip-Hop Into the Mainstream

It’s June 1, and Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav stands on Brooklyn’s Barclay Center stage, triumphant after bringing the house down with “I Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya Man” and “911 is a Joke.” He takes a ...
Los Angeles Times

The right to party

PARK CITY, Utah — “Park City, Utah, in the house, yo!” hip-hop turntablist Mix Master Mike hollered from his DJ perch at the Legacy Lodge, a nightclub at the bottom of a ski run here. A roiling crowd ...
AOL

Rap Pioneer Yo-Yo Is Cooking Up Something New In Hip-Hop’s 50th Year

Forourseries celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, HuffPost is featuring old and new stories about rap culture. Read the rest of our coverage here. “I Run This” is a weekly interview series ...
Hypebeast

A New Book Invites Fans to Remember the Mixtapes That Shaped Hip-Hop’s Golden Era

The past two decades of hip-hop music have been well-documented, thanks to social media and streaming platforms. Today, anyone with internet access can essentially tap into a database of their ...
NPR

How 'Yo! MTV Raps' helped mainstream hip-hop

The MTV show Yo! MTV Raps helped bring hip-hop into mainstream American culture in the 1980s and was made by a scrappy team in the face of a skeptical corporate network. For Jeffrey Allen Townes, the ...