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, ...

An open road is not a personal racetrack, but some seem to think differently. In these top ten states, road racing occurs at unprecedented rates. Rates of street racing are on the rise. Over the past ...

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 ...

There are few people who can claim to have birthed a genre. Teddy Riley, the man behind New Jack Swing, is one of them. The 49-year-old music producer is behind some of the biggest hits from the late ...

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, ...

Music videos were pretty riveting and complex back in the late '90s and early 2000s. Directors such as Hype Williams and Director X, to name a few, were masters at creating epic videos to complement ...

The Cash Money Records that exists today barely resembles the local operation it once was. Whether you call it YMCMB, Young Money or Cash Money, the label is undoubtedly one of the most prominent ...

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.

Pundits and fans bemoaned about the state of hip-hop in 2014, but the climate may not have been as dismal as they think. Last year may not stack up as well when placed against rap calenders of years ...

Now that the dust has settled and the lyrical shrapnel has been cleaned up, several rappers have offered their thoughts on Remy Ma’s brutal Nicki Minaj diss track, “shETHER.” Minaj’s ex-boyfriend, ...

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 ...

Aretha Franklin's legacy in hip-hop runs as deep as her legacy in soul music. Franklin was a vocal powerhouse known for belting out classics like "Respect," “Spanish Harlem,” and "Chain of Fools." Her ...