The list we present here follows love’s movement through nearly four decades of hiphop, from Man Parrish to Missy Elliott.

Hip-hop might have been birthed in the ‘80s; however it wasn't until the ‘90s when the genre started to take off. It was an era of legends like Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, and more who ...

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But what I found most surprising was that mentions went back further than the '90s… and even the '80s. Released in 1979, "Rapper's Delight" is arguably the first commercially successful hip-hop ...