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Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap’s “Exit” From Billboard’s Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

The highest appearance by a hip-hop song is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s “Shot Callin,” at No. 44. Yet in 1990, hip-hop was still in its keeping-it-real phase. Biz’s pop chart ascendence (rap’s ...
KQED

MC Hammer ‘Will Beat Yo’ Ass’—and Other Hard Tales of the MTV-Friendly Rapper

See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...
Complex

Gallery: The Complete Set of Yo! MTV Raps Trading Cards

In 1991—back when MTV still played videos, the other Bush was president, and trading cards were actually considered cool collectors items—Yo! MTV Raps teamed up with ProSet MusicCards to make Yo! MTV ...
AllHipHop

iHeart Levels Up With New Podcasts From Yo! MTV Raps, Charlamagne Tha God

iHeart just signed on some well-known brands and personalities to give their podcasting network a huge boost. (AllHipHop News) U.S. TV host Trevor Noah and bosses behind “YO! MTV Raps,” the seminal ...