Several of the most lauded hip-hop songs in music history have achieved diamond status—10 million sold or more—according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). For these ...

He’s gone viral several times with his song choices: Last year ... An LA native, Banks is a lifelong hip-hop fan who was first exposed to the genre by his mother. “She still says to this ...

Historically forward-thinking when it comes to digital platforms, hip-hop artists have often seemed ... A recent edition of his Song Wars series (think American Idol for the SoundCloud set ...

Editors’ Note: This guest column by former Luke Cage showrunner and Creed II writer Cheo Hodari Coker is part of Deadline’s series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop on August 11.

On Thursday (April 17), he unveiled a previously unheard song called "Blind Spot" off his lost hip-hop-inspired album Streets of Philadelphia Sessions. These songs were recorded alongside his ...

This Hip-Hop song is a personal window into the Wu-Tang veteran’s life and definitely one of his most vulnerable pieces, and man, the chorus still hits different nearly 30 years later.

"I still can't believe I'm going out of this world with NASA through the Deep Space Network when "The Rain" (Supa Dupa Fly) becomes the first ever hip-hop song to transmit to space," gushed the ...

Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best ...

Luckily Hustle & Flow does. Three 6 Mafia's song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" became just the second hip-hop song to win the Oscar for Best Song and it's since gone on to become a big part of ...