Hip hop didn’t politely ask the fashion world for permission—it showed up dressed better than everyone else and dared the industry to keep up. From street corners to couture runways, rappers turned personal style into cultural authority, reshaping how luxury, rebellion, and identity look on a global stage. Below are 22 unmistakable looks that helped crown hip hop as the most powerful force in style.

Few wrestlers have ever burned as brightly as “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. From Canadian roots to WWF stardom to Hollywood movies, Piper was one of the greatest entertainers of his generation.

Paul Simon once sang, “I am a rock, I am an island”—and he wasn’t lying. Simon’s songwriting brilliance is as complicated as the man himself. Beneath the chart-topping, era-defining music, he was a minefield of neuroses: obsessed with control, wracked with self-doubt, and locked in one of music’s most outrageous feuds with his angel-voiced partner, Art Garfunkel. Behind the hits lay a trail of controversy, failed love affairs, wild, substance-fueled nights with Princess Leia, and a genius who couldn’t stop unraveling.

There’s a reason hip hop heads still argue about the 1990s like it’s a religious doctrine. This was the decade when lyricism mattered, regional sounds thrived without canceling each other out, and artists weren’t afraid to be funny, political, vulnerable, or confrontational—sometimes all in the same verse.

These 20 TV shows were massive hits across the globe—but barely made a splash in the U.S. Discover what the rest of the world was watching.

The night Keith Moon wrecked another hotel room seemed routine — until what happened hours later revealed the fragile truth behind rock’s wildest drummer.