Hip-Hop History

Remembering Pat Stay and His Mark on Canadian Battle Rap

The conviction of Duane “Keffe D” Davis in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder has renewed attention on the separate, unsolved killing of The Notorious B.I.G. The cases are often linked in public discussion because Shakur and Christopher Wallace were...

Released Sept. 3, 1991, “O.P.P.” became Naughty by Nature’s breakthrough single and one of the decade’s clearest rap crossover records. The song peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot...