50 Years of hip-hop: A chronological look at the essential records
Looking back at 50 years of hip-hop through the genre's most essential records. In case you hadn’t heard, hip-hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this week. ADVERTISEMENT It started as a niche movement in New York in the early 1970s, and now, it is the world’s biggest genre of music and permeates almost every aspect of modern music and pop culture.