A "female rapper" is a rapper. So to highlight all of the great rap songs from women over the years, we ranked the most classic cuts over the last 38 years of great hip-hop records. There's some ...

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 ...

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 ...

"What is 'alternative hip-hop?'" The answer to that is pretty simple: alternative hip-hop is a silly distinction developed by music writers to help compartmentalize a diverse genre in a way ...

The music world was shocked on Oct. 18, 1974 when Al Green was doused with a boiling pot of grits by girlfriend Mary Woodson. Green was about to shower at his Memphis home when Woodson scalded him ...

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.

If the weather is any indication of what's to come, then spring is finally approaching. And with May just around the corner, we've been gearing up for the festivities ourselves by spinning a few ...

It's highly documented how much of a colossal Prince fan Questlove is, so it’s only right that he curates a special tour in honor of the late Purple One. The Roots drummer will curate, produce ...

Janet Jackson recently saluted her father Joe Jackson who is currently hospitalized with terminal cancer. On Saturday night (June 23), the music icon was accepting the first-ever Impact Award at ...

On August 3, 1995, amid rising tensions between Sean “Diddy” Combs’ burgeoning Bad Boy empire and Suge Knight’s menacing collective of Death Row inmates, literal outcasts André “André ...

The 1990s were a great time in music; as evidenced by the barrage of 90s nostalgia that's been popping up everywhere from primetime sitcoms to music videos lately. But it was an especially great ...

With Tupac Shakur's massive output, sometimes it's easy to forget that some of his best work was on soundtracks, not albums. And when you think about his film career, it makes sense. While his ...