I said a hip hop, hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop. Those were the very first Hip Hop lyrics I remember hearing from my mom’s eight-track tape deck back in the late ’70s.

Beginning with looping a sample on a turntable in 1973, hip-hop’s evolution into the present day has technology baked into its DNA. Reading time 6 minutes This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 ...

The humble turntable has put music in a spin over the last 50 years - giving rise to a whole new genre of sound, artistic skill and culture. The turntable has been used as a musical instrument since ...