35 of the most influential hip-hop songs in music history

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, Business Insider made a playlist of the genre's most essential hits, from ...
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Hip-hop history: A timeline of key events in the music’s early decades

Numerous books have been written about the origins of hip-hop and its evolution from an underground phenomenon to a global force. While its growth since the 1990s had been well-documented, here are ...