Kehlani achieves her first top 10 hit on Billboard ’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart as “Folded” rallies 14-9 on the list dated Aug. 16. The track surges after the release of its “ (un)Folded” ...

Juicy J teams up with Endea Owens for a jazz album, ‘Caught Up In This Illusion.’ Stream the full project and explore the ...

Sens. Chuck Schumer and Bill Cassidy introduced legislation that will expand the celebration of Hip-Hop into August and ...

Chreece will feature more than 70 artists, DJs and producers across a cluster of Fountain Square stages Aug. 23.

Busta Rhymes will be presented with the "Hip Hop Icon Award" by Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce executive board on Sunday ...

Tyson, who died in 2018, had developed hip-hop therapy initially using hip-hop music to connect therapeutically with youth, especially with youth for whom typical forms of therapy lacked cultural ...

As music critic Nelson George wrote, the song was a springboard, "heralding the 808 as the foundation of hip-hop's future and Run-D.M.C. as the genre's new kings." ...

Hundreds of hip-hop songs deserve recognition for their meaning and their beats. But for now, in random order, are 50 essential hip-hop tracks to celebrate five decades of groundbreaking music.

This summer marks a vital anniversary in the history of American music. Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a Jamaican-born DJ named Kool Herc helped his sister throw a back-to-school party in the ...

Mixing hip-hop and house music, lifting liberally from James Brown background singer Lyn Collins’ 1971 song “Think About It,” Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock’s 1988 smash was also an ode to ...

Few songs have ever arrived like a breath of fresh air in hip hop in the way that “Passin’ Me By” did. The Pharcyde was a West Coast hip hop group that arrived during the peak of gangsta rap.