After Cymande disbanded in the ‘70s, cratediggers got hold of your records and sampled them, which played a huge part in launching hip-hop. Where would Cymande be if not for that? “There was a ...

Whatever it was, there was special excitement Wednesday night at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. It was the return to the United States for Cymande, a British soul band that had a brief run in the ...

The Anthology captures the evolution of hip-hop from its earliest days in the late 70s up to contemporary artists of today. Lean more about the diverse history of hip-hop with Meaning in Music, a five ...

derailed initially by an unreceptive music industry but ultimately embraced by the founders of hip-hop, house and disco music ...

Hip hop emerged where people didn’t have many opportunities, the South Bronx, in the mid-’70s, he noted. In the Middle Ages, people didn’t have a lot of opportunities except for a few poets ...