Kurtis Blow

Virginia's top three officials are embroiled in scandal — two over blackface

If they resign, a GOP leader who ascended by random drawing would become governor

How an Early Christmas Single Helped Hip-Hop Explode

Kurtis Blow's 1979 track "Christmas Rappin'" was proof that rap had a place in the money-or-nothing recording industry. It was also just really sweet.

How the best rapper of 1985 was sabotaged because she was a girl

NYC Hates the Ying Yang Twins

While East Coast MCs try their hardest to be complex and lyrical, Southern rappers give us onomatopoeic hooks we can remember.