The future of the BET Hip-Hop Awards and Soul Train Music Awards is in limbo. In a recent interview with Billboard, BET CEO ...

The birth of hip-hop music as we know it might have occurred on this very day in 1973 at a party in the Bronx.

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay ...

Hip-hop celebrates its birthday Monday (Aug. 11), 52 years after that fateful day in the Bronx when a cultural movement was birthed, thanks to DJ Kool Herc who extended the instrumental “break” ...

Eve says she rarely thinks about her huge impact on music and style in the early 2000s. The Grammy-winning rapper, actor and ...

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.

Ebro Darden reveals how he defied corporate politics, bet on himself, and now juggles roles at both Apple Music and Hot 97 ...

W hen Flavor Flav stepped onto the Las Vegas stage with the Backstreet Boys, two completely different musical worlds collided ...

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." ...

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 ...

On the fourth anniversary of his death, we present this never-before-published interview from the VIBE vault in celebration ...

Marking what is designated as the day hip hop was born, the New York City Department of Transportation announced Monday the ...