In 1960, black rock 'n' roll guitarists like Chuck Berry were among the most vital forces driving popular culture. By 1970, a black rock 'n' roll guitarist like Jimi Hendrix was considered a strange ...

Today, rock and rap can be thought of as quite different. When someone begins to describe what kind of music they like, they’ll say, “I like rock, rap…” Hardly ever are they considered siblings, or ...

Back in the 1970s, when Afrika Bambaataa dropped the Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” into his DJ set at, say, the Bronx River Community Center, the earth didn’t move under his turntables. He wasn’t ...

The days of rap-rock collaborations on wax haven’t been the same since their peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Jay-Z could be found mashing up entire albums with Linkin Park and Nappy Roots ...

On August 18, 1998, two albums were released that would migrate two misunderstood genres from minor curiosities to major cultural forces. But nü-metal and rap-rock weren’t always critically derided, ...