Hit-Boy, Grammys 2013: Producer Working With M.I.A. Hit-Boy won big at the 2013 Grammy Awards, collecting a trophy along with Jay-Z and Kanye West for Best Rap Song for "N**as In Paris," ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Over his 30-year-long career, LL Cool J (nee James Todd Smith) put Def Jam on his back and helped define what a rapper looks like -- both in personality and longevity in the rap game. We've ranked all ...

Dance has played a major role in every genre of music. A new dance that's featured in a hip-hop song nowadays can become more popular than the rapper who created it. Before the Chicken Noodle Soup, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you think of the "top five dead or alive" producers in the game, Swizz Beatz surely makes the list. The veteran studio maverick has spent the last two decades crafting chart-topping hits for some ...

On March 9, 1997, the hip-hop world was rocked by the news that The Notorious B.I.G. had been gunned down in Los Angeles after attending an after party hosted by Vibe magazine and Qwest Records at the ...

Although we could always appreciate the strength of R&B's female voices like Whitney Houston, Deborah Cox and, more recently, Beyoncé, there's just something moving about hearing the harmonies from ...

Back in the day, long before Instagram helped turned models into stars, there were rap videos. Arguably, one of the most popular models of that era is Gloria Velez, a New York born, Florida raised ...