The past year has been an incredible 12 months for hip-hop. The entire year has been bursting with quality tracks, mixtapes and albums. It seems almost all of the big names dropped at least something, ...

Aug. 11, 1973 is widely considered to be the day that hip-hop was born, when DJ Kool Herc brought out his "merry-go-round" style of record-spinning during a party at 1520 Sedgewick Ave., in the Bronx, ...

Throughout its history, hip-hop has provided the world with plenty of headlines. We're taking a look at the most important events in the genre's history that have taken place in each year since 1973.

Lauryn Hill may have won the hearts of millions when she released The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill back in 1998. But Robert Glasper claims the singer wasn’t the gifted mastermind the music industry ...

In recent years, Chris Brown and Rihanna's publicly troubled relationship created shocking headlines that repeatedly threatened to overload the Internet. But nothing they did was ever as literally ...

Chris Brown is one of the most beloved and controversial singers of our time. He's proved that he's a remarkable force in R&B ever since the release of his self-titled debut album in 2005. Like his ...

Michael Jackson's sister Rebbie Jackson is mourning the passing of her husband, Nathaniel Brown. After fighting a long battle with cancer, Brown died on Sunday, Jan. 6. He leaves behind not only his ...

New Edition has quite a legacy. The six-man R&B group has amassed a serious discography of hits. From their early days as an 80s bubblegum teen act through their evolution into polished 90s R&B ...

Sometimes it's hard to digest some of Tupac's most memorable songs and lyrics because oddly enough,it still resonates with the times today. His unblemished resume consisting of All Eyez on Me, Me ...

In hip-hop, the guest feature can serve a wide variety of purposes and often many simultaneously. There are times when the host rapper is playing armchair A&R with the goal of putting on a close ...

No era in hip-hop is more mythologized these days than the 1990s. And no regional sound from "way back when" has become more hyped than the "boom bap" of the East Coast during that period. But 90s ...

Listening to hip-hop music, it's easy to believe that just about every rapper shares the same come-up story. They grew up in the 'hood, at some point resorted to selling drugs, launched a career ...