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 ...

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, ...

KRS-One has been at the helm of several of rap's most memorable beefs—some historic (The Bridge Wars) and some bizarre (the time he tried to have Nelly banned). But one of the most infamous KRS-One ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Tribe Called Quest had opened the 1990s as the latest emerging stars of the famed Native Tongues; an artsy collective of left-of-center rap acts that had risen out of New York City in the late 1980s ...

At the beginning of 1990s, R&B and hip-hop were no longer completely foreign to each other. While the early 1980s had seen the R&B establishment scoffing at the upstart rap genre, the latter half of ...

In the pantheon of music, there are a select list of albums that have had the type of cultural impact that constitutes them as being hailed among the most important and groundbreaking bodies of work.

Remember about 14 years ago when Making The Band was a thing for pretty much every network attempting to draw in viewership? Well, one of those shows, BET's Blowin' Up Fatty Koo recently resurfaced ...

The jookin’ movement was all but unheard of outside of Miami until earlier this week when DJ Khaled dropped “To The Max” feat. Drake. The fast-paced hip-hop subgenre was an underground movement in ...

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 ...

Beef is always a hot topic in hip-hop, and the latest dispute to rear its head and capture the culture's attention is the spat between Dipset founders Cam'ron and Jim Jones, which has gone from bad to ...