If aliens landed on earth on a quest to study hip-hop, they would probably believe there are only three female MCs: Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, and Remy Ma (depending on which week they landed). If they ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I'm gonna rock right now / I'm Rob Base and I came to get down …" It was one of the great introductions in hip-hop, coming as it did riding atop a sleek, head-nodding, foot-tapping groove and an ...

Logic dropped his highly anticipated album Everybody today (May 5), alongside his well-received single of the same name, and the cut "1-800-273-8255" with Alessia Cara and Khalid. As many know, the ...

After having been originally dismissive of hip-hop, Prince eventually came to see what made it so vital. We're counting down our 19 favorite times when Prince worked with or was inspired by rappers.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Hip-hop has always been tied to the streets. To that end, death and murder has also unfortunately, been a tragic part of rap music. We're remembering the lives of those rappers who have been murdered.

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 2001 Sean Combs had been acquitted on gun-possession and bribery charges after a shooting in an NYC nightclub in 1999. After his freedom was put on the line, Combs— largely known in the hip-hop ...