As the art form celebrates its 50th anniversary, three artists who are among the most important figures in pop culture could receive key honors, showing the genre’s ubiquity, according to THR’s The ...

Though he’s been dead since 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur may still be one of the most important, significant and influential people in the hip-hop genre. His force of will, biting lyrics, and scathing ...

Thirty years later, California Love remains one of the defining singles of the nineties and a moment that helped solidify ...

With Dynamic Duos, Erick Sermon brings together legendary rap partners while warning that today’s music isn’t transcending — and the OGs are still carrying the culture.

Jam Master Jay, the DJ of the pioneering hip-hop group Run-D.M.C., was shot and killed in his recording studio in New York City in 2002. At 37 years old, his murder stunned the music world. Jam Master ...

Tupac had absorbed endless hours of music, but never before had he been in the presence of a peer who could create so many beeps, blurps, and murmurs. The boys bonded quickly (Mouse wisely insisted ...

Tupac Shakur makes the Vatican's MySpace music playlist. Dec. 7, 2009— -- So, who would have thought that the Vatican could be so hip? The blogosphere has been buzzing with news that the late ...

In late April, Senator Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) began his testimony before a Senate subcommittee hearing by doing something unusual for a stuffy institution like Congress: He played a new song ...

The backdrop for both tragedies was a rap landscape defined by intense rivalries, fractured friendships and the notorious ...