For Billboard’s 1998 Week, VIBE’s Editor-in-Chief Datwon Thomas remembers what an amazing time 1998 was for hip-hop, with his own memories from his early days as an Associate Editor at the pivotal XXL ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Jan. 25, 1998: On this day in 1998, Queen Latifah became the first rapper to grace the Super Bowl stage, which opened the door for hip-hop to come ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I got robbed by a crackhead on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1998. While I wish that ...

Just last week, one of the topics on EW Radio was the number of genre-defining hip-hop albums hitting their twentieth anniversaries this year. Plenty of rap records had found their way to the upper ...

Many will write about the 15th anniversary of the last great release date in Rap history. But few truly overstand why it earned that designation and why after it there may never be another great day ...

1998: It's been 19 years to the day since the release of Juvenile's breakthrough project 400 Degreez. In 2017, this album remains one of the main projects responsible for boosting the Cash Money label ...

In 1998, hip-hop was no longer a “fad” that mainstream white America thought was going to fade away. It ran the music industry. New MCs were making a name for themselves and veterans were staking ...

Dec. 22 is an unforgettable date for many R&B and hip-hop fans, and deservedly so. DaBaby was born on this date in 1991. He ...

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The boxes for the key releases had box cutters put to them and extra space was made in the Rap/Hip-Hop section. In addition, there’d be extra boxes of Jay-Z’s Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, A Tribe Called ...