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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In hip-hop, the guest feature can serve a wide variety of purposes and often many simultaneously. There are times when the host rapper is playing armchair A&R with the goal of putting on a close ...

If you don't bust a groove when you hear one of your favorite hip-hop songs, things are about to change. At hip-hop’s beginning, dancing was a major element within the culture. Any park in the Bronx, ...

R&B singer/songwriter R. Kelly revealed that despite his musical talents, he suffers from illiteracy and barely made it through grade school. The Grammy winner recently spoke at the Midwest Music ...

Over the better part of the last four decades, an innumerable amount of rap albums have been released. During the genre's humble beginnings, most of these albums were products of rappers from the East ...

Four years before the release of her sophomore album, Never Say Never, the music industry was officially introduced to songbird Brandy Norwood with her debut album Brandy. So many wanted to know more ...

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 ...

Music videos are one of the more under-appreciated formats for releasing music in the modern age. There's still very much an audience for them on YouTube and other video sharing websites, and some ...

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 ...