18 Shots Fired During Rick Ross Attack, Frank Ocean to Rock Grammys Despite Injury & More Contrary to 50 Cent's claims, spent casings indicate that there were 18 shots fired during Rick Ross' recent ...

A Tribe Called Quest is one of the most revered groups of all-time, and with good cause. We've ranked their fantastic discography from worst to best. But it was their following two albums, 1991's Low ...

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.

Lauryn Hill turned a street vernacular into a karmic mantra with her special effects-driven video for "Everything Is Everything" from her 1998 debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. For today's ...

KRS-One has been at the helm of several of rap's most memorable beefs—some historic (The Bridge Wars) and some bizarre (the time he tried to have Nelly banned). But one of the most infamous KRS-One ...

Remember about 14 years ago when Making The Band was a thing for pretty much every network attempting to draw in viewership? Well, one of those shows, BET's Blowin' Up Fatty Koo recently resurfaced ...

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, ...

Jazz and hip-hop share the same cultural lineage in the music culture. Jazz emerged out of many different types of black music such as slave songs, ragtime and the blues. And much like jazz, hip-hop - ...

On August 3, 1995, amid rising tensions between Sean “Diddy” Combs’ burgeoning Bad Boy empire and Suge Knight’s menacing collective of Death Row inmates, literal outcasts André “André 3000” Benjamin ...

If you haven't noticed, there aren't hype men on stage like there used to be back in the day. While the beat-boxer or the two backup dancers like Scoob and Scrap Lover are not completely gone from the ...

Janet Jackson is a music video icon. Alongside her brother, Michael Jackson and Madonna, she dominated the music video medium in the '80s and on into the '90s, becoming one of the world's biggest ...

Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty) has been hella busy taking the beauty and fashion industries by storm with the launches of Fenty Beauty and Savage x Fenty, leaving her navy of fans to wonder if she ...