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Drew 'Grandmaster Dee' Carter heartily endorses the 1980s theme in the entertainment schedule of this year's Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration.

There are many versions of Evian's "Skating Babies" on YouTube, combined the viral video has more than 5 million pageviews.

The video of babies in nappies performing skating stunts to a hip-hop beat has been watched 3.8 million times on YouTube alone in the past week.

It was a celebration like no other in Bucks County Saturday as Bustleton Pike in Lower Southampton played host to a mile-long block party in honor of the nation's 233rd birthday.

"I said a hip hop, the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat." Montclair High School has tapped them as the headline act for an all-day music festival, Rockin' In The Suburbs , on July 25, the proceeds of which will all go towards ...

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister - and a rap record was a hit for the first time.

Like rhyme-busting Amish, the Sugarhill Gang are from an older, simpler time; rappers weren't superstars, Autotune hadn't been invented, and the gangsta genre was just a diamond-encrusted gleam in Ice-T's eye.

Not this night! Uh, morning. And not for the foreseeable future. What used to be a way to review what happened over the weekends I'd spent covering basketball and football games is kind of pointless now.

Every year, the New York City Parks Foundation offers a series of events throughout the five boroughs of New York City in an effort to encourage and revitalize New York City public parks and their surrounding neighborhoods.

Thirty years ago, SugarHill Gang made history when its song, "Rapper's Delight," became the first hip-hop song to become a Top 40 hit.

Back when a DJ was actually a disc jockey with a listening audience, veteran drive-time mouthbox Douglas "Jocko" Henderson followed up an unsuccessful 1978 bid for Congress by putting his uniquely square rhyming over an instrumental track of McFadden & Whitehead's "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now." The resulting 7:15 of vinyl delight, with steez like ...

Thirty years after "Rapper's Delight" became the first hip-hop single to go gold, the Sugar Hill Gang is coming to Knoxville for, of all things, the Tennessee Valley Fair .

The City Park's Foundation is celebrating it's 20th anniversary by hosting it's annual free summer Hip-Hop concert series.

Some Americans remember where they were when President Kennedy was shot, while others remember the first time they saw the Beatles.

Bob Sinclar feat. Sugarhill Gang - 'LaLa Song' In 2007, after the success of the albums Western Dream and Soundz of Freedom - the latter a compilation/DJ mix stuffed full of unreleased tracks - Bob Sinclar decided to say goodbye to the Paris rat race and spend a year in Los Angeles to find the right inspiration for a new record.

Who'd have imagined that Alan Thicke - he of Growing Pains fame - would sire a son who would grow up to be a multiplatinum R&B star? Not us, but we're sure glad he did.

Doc.G will be one of the performers at Old School Weekend, a retro hip-hop event at the Mississippi Moon Bar, Diamond Jo Casino.

SOUNDS LIKE: Honey B is a reggae DJ who plays an authentic island mix. Vintage tracks from the beginnings of Studio One and Bob Marley and the Wailers blend with Jamaica's newest hits by roots artists like Morgan Heritage, Queen Ifrica and Tarrus Riley.

The early 1970s saw a new culture developing in the Bronx. In nightclubs and at house parties, DJs and MCs spent countless hours developing hip-hop as an art form.

Rona Brinlee, owner of The Bookmark in Atlantic Beach, was featured in a New York Times story last fall about Nikki Giovanni's new book, "Hip Hop Speaks to Children." Brinlee was quoted as saying how popular the book had been at her independent book store.