Hip-hop celebrates its birthday Monday (Aug. 11), 52 years after that fateful day in the Bronx when a cultural movement was birthed, thanks to DJ Kool Herc who extended the instrumental “break” ...

On the fourth anniversary of his death, we present this never-before-published interview from the VIBE vault in celebration ...

Despite hip-hop’s massive popularity — it accounts for 27.7% of U.S. music consumption, more than any other genre, according to MRC Data — as any financial advisor will tell you, the key to ...

As a member of the hip-hop group UTFO, he was part of a pioneering era of New York City rap in the early 1980s. The Brooklyn group was best known for their 1984 hit song "Roxanne, Roxanne." ...

Hip hop is a multi-billion-dollar musical movement that is now at the center of mainstream culture. It’s grown into something bigger than anyone who attended Cindy Campbell’s 1973 end of ...

The "Where The Party At?" tour transformed the Cuyahoga Falls venue into a hip hop time machine as the legacy artists ...

Hip hop itself started out as a form of dance music in the 1970s, and there’s a good argument to be made that most hip hop is dance music in one form or another.

Country star Morgan Wallen is ending 2021 in a place few would have expected to find him a few months ago: in the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop chart. “Broadway Girls,” his ...

Hip-hop was born at a birthday party in the Bronx, a neglected part of a neglected city. The music and culture that emerged were shaped by the unique mix of Black and Puerto Rican people pushed ...

Trill Hip Hop Shop in Phoenix is as much a shrine to hip-hop culture as it is a place to score a near-mint copy of Run-DMC’s “King of Rock” or an MF Doom cereal box with an MF Doom action ...

Given hip-hop’s regrettable relationship to the female gender and Drama’s well-earned reputation, you can rest assured of at least one fact: Lakeyah is a rapper’s rapper.

They need to be in the mix testing partnerships and trends before they have the data to back it up.” See below to see the full list of hip-hop’s top earners: 1. Jay-Z – $470 million 2.