Picture it. The year was 1986, and hip-hop was still in the relatively early stages, but growing in popularity. Then one day, one legendary group dropped a hit album that proved hip-hop was a genre ...

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Thirty-nine years ago, during a pivotal moment in American urban history marked by the crack cocaine epidemic, Run-D.M.C. released an album that would cement their legacy as Hip Hop royalty. On this ...

Born in the 1970s, hip-hop music was built largely on the beat breaks in disco songs. Some of the earliest hits in the genre sampled those dancey tracks, including “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill ...

Run DMC in the place to be. Full of hits. You've heard at least 3 of the tracks on here at some point, guaranteed. Old school classic shit.