In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

Al Pacino’s iconic portrayal of Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface has left an indelible mark on cinema, but its journey from critical skepticism to cult classic status is largely attributed to an ...