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, ...

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 ...

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 the pantheon of music, there are a select list of albums that have had the type of cultural impact that constitutes them as being hailed among the most important and groundbreaking bodies of work.

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.

Rap music can be fun and thought provoking, bringing people together and introducing differing perspectives, but in its essence, the genre is very much a sport for verbal gladiators. Beef in hip-hop ...

Listening to hip-hop music, it's easy to believe that just about every rapper shares the same come-up story. They grew up in the 'hood, at some point resorted to selling drugs, launched a career ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heading into the 90s, hip-hop and urban culture was on the verge of a new frontier. With the music, fashion, and lingo bred by hip-hop beginning to infiltrate pop culture, new cultural institutions ...

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 ...