The highest appearance by a hip-hop song is YoungBoy Never Broke Again's "Shot Callin," at No. 44. Yet in 1990, hip-hop was ...

A non-profit fund has been established to give some older artists' support. While history remembers many of hip-hop's artists who laid the bricks for the foundation of the genre, there are some, like ...

For Bay Area artist and domestic violence survivor Megan Correa, known on stage as Lil MC, hip-hop has always been more than ...

MC Lyte, one of hip-hop’s pioneer emcees, tells CNN she’s “elated” with how far hip-hop has come since its inception back in 1973. “Look where we are. I am just so elated, excited, it’s almost as ...

Warren G didn’t hold back his admiration for Eminem during a recent appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, calling the Detroit lyricist “straight Hip-Hop” and placing him comfortably ...

MC Lyte’s voice reverberated across Forest Hills Stadium like a pastor’s at church at LL Cool J’s Rock The Bells Festival. She had the audience in the palm of her hand, as they rapped along word for ...

As someone who helped shape the culture, MC Sha-Rock has witnessed Hip-Hop’s evolution from what many suspected would be “just a fad” to the billion dollar business it is today. The Hip-Hop 50 ...

As we chat beside a gorgeous hotel pool in Edgartown, Massachusetts, Hampton explains she got bored with the content. She even expresses, strikingly calm and soft-spoken, that she finds many male ...

The hip hop artist Mimzy MC is entering the realm of fiction storytelling and world-building in her newest album, exploring ...

*MC Hammer recently explained why he’s been missing from all the hip-hop 50th-anniversary celebrations this year. Last month, Hammer attended the 2Pac street naming event in Oakland, California, where ...

When rapper Nas famously declared, “Went from Seiko to Rolex, ownin’ acres,” he wasn’t just flexing wealth — he was tracing ...