Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

Fifty years after it was created in New York City’s Bronx borough, hip hop is a multi-billion dollar industry that doubles as a powerful political tool for Black Americans. The music for a ...

It was been well over 30 years since Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest said, “Rap is not pop if you call it that then stop” on the pioneering quartet’s seminal 1991 single “Check The Rhime.” In the ...

After a 4-year battle with colon cancer, Chadwick Boseman passed away at only 43. 53 minutes ago Fat Joe returned to the stage for an all-star performance dedicated to LOUD Records for their 30th ...

For Billboard's second annual Hottest Female Rappers list, the editorial staff highlights the best femcees of the 2025.

Iconic hip-hop pioneers Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton of Salt-N-Pepa claim that Universal Music Group has removed some of their biggest hits from streaming platforms amid an ongoing ...

Arena-sized hip-hop music is a rarity in Roanoke. Last time rap hitmakers came to the Roanoke Civic Center was 2008, when Rick Ross performed in front of fewer than 1,100 in a poorly promoted concert.

LOS ANGELES — Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage," died Wednesday at age 59, his manager said. Coolio ...

Things are known to get physical on Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, but this time, Safaree threw a chair and hit himself in the head with it. "I'm like, why the baby ain't got my goatee yet," Safaree ...

Watch the “Country Grammar” hitmaker take over the stage in ATL. The 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards aired on Tuesday, October 5 from Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Missouri-bred rapper Cornell ...