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.

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, ...

Havoc of Mobb Deep recently sat down with Jack Thriller of ThisIs50 where he discussed the group’s legendary beef with the late Tupac Shakur. Havoc explained how all the shade coming from Pac actually ...

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 ...

Rap fans got a very pleasant surprise last week when Drake blessed the internet with a link to his new project, If You're Reading This It's Too Late. Containing 17 tracks, a majority of which were ...

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 ...

Challenging authority and bucking the status quo has long been one of the more endearing and powerful qualities of hip-hop. Beginning in the early '80s where artists like Mellie Mel and his Furious 5 ...

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, ...

New Edition has quite a legacy. The six-man R&B group has amassed a serious discography of hits. From their early days as an 80s bubblegum teen act through their evolution into polished 90s R&B ...

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 ...

While most hip-hop fans knew Busta Rhymes as the breakout star from Leaders of the New School, and from his classic debut solo single “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check,” it was the music video for “Put ...

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 ...