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

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

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” ...

Jimmie Allen honored Jay-Z with a Hip-Hop-inspired country track while previewing his next tour and celebrating his musical roots.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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." ...

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.

Today, Tucker, executive director and founder of Hip Hop is Green, uses the culture as a vehicle to teach youth of color ...