With Hip-Hop’s 50th year anniversary quickly approaching this Friday, it’s only right we honor and pay homage to the greats that paved the way for the genre of rap as a whole. Insert Rostrum Records, ...

MC Lyte’s voice reverberated across Forest Hills Stadium like a pastor’s at church at LL Cool J’s Rock The Bells Festival. She had the audience in the palm of her hand, as they rapped along word for ...

Hip-hop pioneer MC Lyte made music history as the first female solo rapper to be nominated for a Grammy. When talking about hip-hop, we must never forget the OGs of the game. MC Lyte is one of them.

MC Lyte in Brooklyn, 1989. (Credit: Al Pereira/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives) MC Lyte — born Lana Michele Moorer in 1970 — was a mere 12 years old when she wrote her debut single, “I Cram to ...

Thirty years ago, “Take It Lyte” and the more popular “I Cram to Understand U” were how most hip-hop lovers were introduced to MC Lyte. By the time her album Lyte as a Rock dropped the next year, in ...

Rostrum Records is celebrating its 20th anniversary in connection with Hip-Hop 50. The independent record label has released a 16-minute documentary Top Shelf 1988, titled after their inaugural ...

TheGrio is celebrating Black Music Month with “High Frequency,” our celebration of trailblazing Black Women in music. When talking about hip-hop, we must never forget the OGs of the game. MC Lyte is ...