Gilbert "Toker" Izquierdo, one of the original members of the group Brownside, has passed away. His family confirmed the news on the rapper's Instagram page and on the group’s Instagram and Facebook ...

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's studio album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, is one of the sweetest things we've ever known in hip-hop. Mixing elements of rap, reggae, and her honey-coated vocals, Lauryn created a ...

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 ...

Back in January, West Coast rapper Lady of Rage took to Instagram to post about an undiagnosed illness that forced her to put a pause on her career. On August 8, the Virginia-born emcee Robin Yvette ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs (aka “Puff Daddy”) has been the mastermind of some of the greatest rap songs in the 1990s. But arguably, one of his greatest bangers coming out of the Bad Boy Records era was his ...

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, ...

The sassy singing, rhythms and basslines of Tom Tom Club’s most pivotal piece of music, "Genius of Love" was a crossover smash that hit the disco, soul and pop charts in 1981. The song later became ...

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 ...

The ‘90s wasn’t just the golden age of hip-hop, it was also an era when R&B singers took the term 'rock star' to new heights. Bubble-gum pop (think New Edition), was up against sexed-up ballads sung ...

Four years before the release of her sophomore album, Never Say Never, the music industry was officially introduced to songbird Brandy Norwood with her debut album Brandy. So many wanted to know more ...