It started in a smoky trap house in East Oakland, teens banging on a table, freestyling about scrounging up enough cash to ...

Combs founded Bad Boy Records in 1993 and had an early success that would thrust him into the centre of the hip hop scene and the violent East Coast-West Coast rivalry. One of his first big acts as a ...

Method Man's raps are more than rhymes. It is the way he blends an outward charm, genuine talent, and authenticity every time he appears. Clifford Smith Jr.

During Black Music Month, YouTube’s Director of Black Music and Culture, Tuma Basa, selected twenty standout hip-hop videos ...

Ryan Coogler explains how he thought about hip-hop, dance, commodification, Black lineage, and his own family as he created ‘Sinners’ ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant testified that he tried to ambush Marion "Suge" Knight in 2008. Diddy and Suge have been feuding since the '90s, when they both launched hip-hop record labels.

Set in downtown Manhattan in the late '80s and early '90s, hip-hop and skateboarding tribes were neck-in-neck., but despite this growing conflict between two opposing sides this convergence ...

Tasting menus and expletives: When fine dining meets hip-hop At restaurants that play hip-hop with explicit lyrics, the owners cite their personal connection to the genre. That doesn’t always ...

Thanks to hip-hop DJs and MCs (Masters of Ceremonies) — such as Starchild & T-Bone, Terrible Tee, Mr. Magic, Tuff Two MCs and others — the budding music form and the culture around it grew in ...

Future, Meek Mill, Childish Gambino, and other hip-hop artists from the era are featured on this one, and it also has some great throwbacks like "Bridging the Gap" by Nas, and "Hail Mary" by 2Pac.

Future, Meek Mill, Childish Gambino, and other hip-hop artists from the era are featured on this one, and it also has some great throwbacks like "Bridging the Gap" by Nas, and "Hail Mary" by 2Pac.