They're all highly respected in the world of old-school rap. And they all hit the Top 40 just once in their careers.

Marvin “Young MC” Young busted onto the scene with “Bust a Move” in the late 1980s, earning the first-ever televised Grammy for Best Rap Performance and etching his name into hip-hop history. Now ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. “Imagine if a blue collar or middle-class sitcom dad … was cool enough to make rap music, that’s what I ...

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