“Husters Convention” pays due tribute to the eponymous 1973 album, a pseudonymously credited, underground-distributed proto-rap album that wound up hugely influencing a hip-hop culture not yet extant ...

The ascendancy of hip-hop as a cultural phenomenon has brought a kindred form of expression to the masses: the spoken word. Landmark proto-rap records by the likes of the Last Poets and Melvin Van ...

"World Hip Hop," the title of Sunday night's show at the Hollywood Bowl, was something of a misnomer. The acts that hewed closest to the titular style sounded very familiar, differing little, if at ...

Andre Williams, an R&B singer and record producer whose talking, proto-rap style and strutting stage persona earned him the sobriquet “Mr. Rhythm,” died Sunday at a nursing home in Chicago. He was 82.

To drum up support for their latest release, Finland's Top Billin label has given us this proto-rap, boom bap hybrid remix from England's Jaycek of Punk Trouble's trappy collab with New Jersey rapper ...

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...