August 6, 2023
Yo! MTV Raps TV Show Premieres – Today in Hip-Hop
[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Aug. 6, 1988: During the 1980s, the cultural landscape of MTV was dramatically different and we are not talking about a severe lack of reality-TV programming the channel feeds us today. For Black artists, it was often difficult if not impossible to get their videos played on the music channel. If you were not Michael Jackson, Prince or had obvious rock influences, you were unwanted on the station. And if you were hip-hop? Forget it. You were persona non grata. But that all changed in the summer of 1988 when, on this day, in 1988, Yo! MTV Raps premiered on the air.Yo! MTV Raps was created by...