f11photo/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images/Michael Blackshire/Getty Images/ Leon Bennett/Getty Images Through the years, TDE has branched out of rap, all the while maintaining its ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

Rappers have never been shy about comparing the streets they come from to war zones. And just as our brave soldiers in conflicts overseas suffer casualties, the streets have claimed plenty of lives.

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 ...

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Dr. Dre, Mobb Deep and The Clipse take top 3 honors on Spotify’s list Spotify has released a list of what it considers to be the 50 greatest hip-hop beats of all time in recognition of the 50th ...

There’s an old saying “There’s nothing new under the sun”, which we often write off as a figure of speech. However, when you recognize something you’re almost certain you’ve seen or heard before, ...

Below, Billboard’s hip-hop braintrust ranked the 50 greatest hip-hop album covers of all-time, spanning from from the genre’s ...

LOS ANGELES -- The 1982 hit "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was named the greatest hip hop song of all time Wednesday, in the first such list by Rolling Stone magazine to ...

After nearly 30 years and much debate, Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Pt. II" has officially been named the greatest hip-hop beat of all time. After nearly 30 years and much debate, Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones ...

When it comes to Hip-Hop, it’s no secret that women are currently dominating the charts. A once male-dominated industry has now, though begrudgingly, become more diverse as female rappers have not ...