Afrika Bambaataa, one of the most influential architects of early hip hop, has died at 68 after prostate cancer complications ...

Cassie Ventura is not the first survivor of hip-hop’s abuse. Unfortunately, she will not be the last. In the months since Ventura filed a federal lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for rape and abuse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bun B has long been a trailblazer in both Hip Hop and Houston culture, but his influence extends far beyond music. Over the past ...

Hip hop has never been bigger, but that scale comes with a different kind of pressure now. The genre sits at the center of ...

Let’s go down memory lane for a bit. Twenty-eight years ago marked the release of MC Lyte’s seminal debut album, Lyte as a Rock. It was hip-hop’s first meaningful album from a female emcee. Twenty ...

Modern artists like Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole continue to use their platforms to highlight racial injustice, mental health struggles, and systemic problems in the U.S. Hip-hop’s role in political ...

The Recording Academy stepped up on Sunday, giving major awards to Childish Gambino, Cardi B and Drake, but these efforts might be too late to... Hip-hop pulled a Marlo on the Grammys this year. In a ...

Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre's authentic New York roots with his new docuseries "Hip Hop Was Born Here," ...

When Jabari “Dr. Naledge” Evans was a kid, hip-hop felt like a privilege. If he got straight A’s, his mother would let him go to the legendary music venue in the city’s South Side, Chicago’s ...