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NEW YORK (AP) — Joseph Robinson Jr., an executive at Sugarhill Records and a son of Sylvia Robinson, known as the Mother of Hip-Hop, died Saturday from cancer. He was 53. Family spokesman Greg Walker said Wednesday that Robinson, better known as Joey, died at his home in Tenafly, New Jersey. Robinson’s mother founded Sugarhill […]

“Now what you hear is not a test/I’m rapping to the beat…” If you can complete not just this sentence, but the verse before and the rest of the song, then you know the seminal hip-hop classic “Rapper’s Delight,” perhaps the most addictive sing-along song ever recorded. Big Bank Hank, Master Gee and Wonder Mike […]