August 4th in Hip Hop History

2017"Despacito" becomes the most-watched YouTube video ever, passing the Wiz Khalifa/Charlie Puth collaboration "See You Again" with nearly 3 billion views in just seven months. The mark holds until 2020, when "Baby Shark" overtakes it.2016Nationwide insurance announces a new ad campaign withĀ Brad PaisleyĀ andĀ Rachel Platten. 2012Electric blues guitarist Johnnie Bassett dies of cancer at age 76. […]

August 2nd In Hip Hop History

  Weird Al Finally Lands #1 Album 2014 Weird Al Yankovic’s Mandatory Fun goes to #1, giving the parody master his first chart-topping album. 1998The Beatles are named “Favourite Recording Artist Of All Time” in a poll conducted by the UK music magazine Mojo, beating out Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Queen, and Elton John in that […]

Today, August 1st In Hip Hop History

CHUCK D WAS BORN, AUGUST 1ST 1960 Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known in the hip hop scene and beyond as Chuck D, is an American rapper. The leader of the rap group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav, Chuck D helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid-1980s. He is ranked by The Source […]