The music heard in movies serves several purposes, such as invoking emotion between characters, creating continuity between ...

Hip-hop might have been born in the '70s, but it was in the '90s when the genre truly started to see commercial success. It was an era in which artistic creativity expanded, rivalries emerged, pop ...

It’s been 30 years since 1996. Feel old yet? Time has been passing at an alarmingly fast rate, to the point where foundational memories in our lives feel like yesterday. This feeling amplifies if ...

A ranked list of the best music videos of the 1990s across all genres, including videos from TLC, Nirvana, Beck, Snoop Dogg ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rap and metal had occasionally flirted with each other through the 80s, but it wasn't until the early 90s when they finally got ...

It’s easy to wonder what 90s hip-hop artists would sound like if they came out today. What would Tupac rap over if he were still alive? What does Illmatic sound like if Nas were depicting a more ...

Everyone calls the ’90s the Golden Age Hip-Hop. That’s cute—but it still feels like a lazy summary of a decade that completely rewrote the rules. Rap albums of the ’80s gave us the blueprint—Slick ...

The man behind one of the biggest hip-hop hits of the late 1990s — Tone Capone — has died. He was 59. If Capone’s name ...

Sampling is when an artist takes an existing recorded sound and adds it to a new recording. The original sound is oftentimes ...