Once upon a time, Lil' Kim gathered Missy Elliott, Da Brat, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Angie Martinez to record a sequel to her "Hardcore" offering "Not Tonight." Together, at the height of their ...

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Gelo is Billboard Hip-Hop's Rookie of the Month for February.

On this day in 2004, Chicago rap icon Twista released Kamikaze, his fourth studio album and a landmark in his storied career. Marking its 21st anniversary, Kamikaze remains Twista’s most successful ...

For those that have been paying attention, video-game scores and soundtracks have quietly been influencing generations of hip-hop producers for quite some time now. With this in mind, we here at ...

So far this year, during hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, massive tributes at shows like the MTV Awards and the Grammys highlighted the rappers from the past and present who’ve made hip-hop a ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...