Over his 30-year-long career, LL Cool J (nee James Todd Smith) put Def Jam on his back and helped define what a rapper looks like -- both in personality and longevity in the rap game. We've ranked all ...

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.

Lauryn Hill turned a street vernacular into a karmic mantra with her special effects-driven video for "Everything Is Everything" from her 1998 debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. For today's ...

KRS-One has been at the helm of several of rap's most memorable beefs—some historic (The Bridge Wars) and some bizarre (the time he tried to have Nelly banned). But one of the most infamous KRS-One ...

Remember about 14 years ago when Making The Band was a thing for pretty much every network attempting to draw in viewership? Well, one of those shows, BET's Blowin' Up Fatty Koo recently resurfaced ...

Forty-five years ago today (August 11, 1973), DJ Kool Herc spinned funk and soul records at a rec room in the Bronx, N.Y., that would spark a movement and culture that would be known as hip-hop. No ...

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 Bronx, ...

After more than 11 years, Usher has sold the Alpharetta, Ga., mansion that he bought in 1998 for $1.2 million from the man who helped make him famous, L.A. Reid. Usher first listed it in June 2007, ...

Jazz and hip-hop share the same cultural lineage in the music culture. Jazz emerged out of many different types of black music such as slave songs, ragtime and the blues. And much like jazz, hip-hop - ...

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 3000” Benjamin ...

In 1996, D'Angelo and Questlove came together at Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios in New York City and changed the landscape of soul music, influencing countless musicians in their wake. Together, ...

If you haven't noticed, there aren't hype men on stage like there used to be back in the day. While the beat-boxer or the two backup dancers like Scoob and Scrap Lover are not completely gone from the ...