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Hip-hop

Natalie Portman at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival - 16 May 2025

The “really, really obscene” 2005 song Natalie Portman became obsessed with

Need to wash their mouths out with soap.

Tim Bradley
Jun 18, 2026
James Brown - Singer

“I started the rap music”: Did James Brown invent hip-hop?

“Those are poor copies…”

Ben Forrest
Jun 16, 2026
Graham Nash - Singer - 2014

The 2018 hip-hop song Graham Nash fell in love with: “A great piece of art”

A modern classic.

Lauren Hunter
Jun 12, 2026
Jam Master Jay - Run DMC - Far Out Magazine

Man pleads guilty to murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

24 years later.

Joe Walker
Apr 28, 2026
Rick Rubin - Record Producer - 2024

“The death of ‘Def'”: When Rick Rubin held a funeral for a word

“Defeated its purpose…”

Paulina Subia
Apr 19, 2026
Yaya Bey - ‘Fidelity’ - 2026

Yaya Bey – ‘Fidelity’ album review: Grief, identity, and timelessly soulful vocals

An emotive effort…

Ben Forrest
Apr 16, 2026
James Brown

What was the first sample of James Brown ever used?

“Huh!”

Tom Phelan
Mar 23, 2026
Over before it even began the dark electric pop duo Sad Night Dynamite

Over before it even began: the dark electric pop duo Sad Night Dynamite

The dynamic duo blew up before their time.

Gaia Neiman
Mar 13, 2026
Noel Gallagher - Oasis - Songwriter - Musician - Guitarist - 2024 - Sifters

The hip-hop groups Noel Gallagher said no one would equal

Some hip hop behemoths.

Dale Maplethorpe
Jan 29, 2026
The three samples that make up House of Pain song Jump Around

The three samples that make up House of Pain song ‘Jump Around’

“Pack it up, pack it in…”

Tom Phelan
Dec 18, 2025
Ray Charles - Musician - 1995

How did Ray Charles feel about the rise of rap music?

“Stuff that I could do when I was nine years old…”

Andrew Clayman
Dec 2, 2025
Sir-Mix-A-Lot - Far Out Magazine

Did Sir Mix-a-Lot invent the country-rap genre six years before ‘Baby Got Back’?

He also laid an early claim to “the Seattle Sound”.

Andrew Clayman
Nov 29, 2025

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