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Artists like Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, the Creator are pulling in huge audiences on the road, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again ...
Happening on August 17, 2025, the People's Hip Hop Awards will have over 50 celebrities and live performances.
Mic check, one two, one two! The art of hip-hop is receiving the recognition it deserves thanks to bipartisan support from Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Cassidy ...
The birth of hip-hop music as we know it might have occurred on this very day in 1973 at a party in the Bronx.
Eve says she rarely thinks about her huge impact on music and style in the early 2000s. The Grammy-winning rapper, actor and ...
Hip-hop celebrates its birthday Monday (Aug. 11), 52 years after that fateful day in the Bronx when a cultural movement was birthed, thanks to DJ Kool Herc who extended the instrumental “break” ...
Hundreds of hip-hop songs deserve recognition for their meaning and their beats. But for now, in random order, are 50 essential hip-hop tracks to celebrate five decades of groundbreaking music.
Ebro Darden reveals how he defied corporate politics, bet on himself, and now juggles roles at both Apple Music and Hot 97 ...
As music critic Nelson George wrote, the song was a springboard, "heralding the 808 as the foundation of hip-hop's future and Run-D.M.C. as the genre's new kings." ...
Mixing hip-hop and house music, lifting liberally from James Brown background singer Lyn Collins’ 1971 song “Think About It,” Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock’s 1988 smash was also an ode to ...
Marking what is designated as the day hip hop was born, the New York City Department of Transportation announced Monday the ...