Lauryn Hill may have won the hearts of millions when she released The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill back in 1998. But Robert Glasper claims the singer wasn’t the gifted mastermind the music industry ...

Aug. 11, 1973 is widely considered to be the day that hip-hop was born, when DJ Kool Herc brought out his "merry-go-round" style of record-spinning during a party at 1520 Sedgewick Ave., in the Bronx, ...

Michael Jackson's sister Rebbie Jackson is mourning the passing of her husband, Nathaniel Brown. After fighting a long battle with cancer, Brown died on Sunday, Jan. 6. He leaves behind not only his ...

Are you unfamiliar with who Lil Boosie is or why the rap world has been losing their collective minds since his release from prison last week? Don’t worry, The Boombox has got you covered. Lil Boosie ...

The past year has been an incredible 12 months for hip-hop. The entire year has been bursting with quality tracks, mixtapes and albums. It seems almost all of the big names dropped at least something, ...

Throughout her storied career, veteran songbird Gladys Knight has witnessed artists break into the music business, for better or for worse. In an interview with MSNBC's The Grio, the 72-year-old ...

In 2001 Sean Combs had been acquitted on gun-possession and bribery charges after a shooting in an NYC nightclub in 1999. After his freedom was put on the line, Combs— largely known in the hip-hop ...

In the pantheon of music, there are a select list of albums that have had the type of cultural impact that constitutes them as being hailed among the most important and groundbreaking bodies of work.

Eventually, new jack swing would fade as R&B shifted into fusions of hip-hop and R&B that were more organic (the neo soul of artists like D'Angelo and Erykah Badu) and less dancefloor-driven (the ...

Gilbert "Toker" Izquierdo, one of the original members of the group Brownside, has passed away. His family confirmed the news on the rapper's Instagram page and on the group’s Instagram and Facebook ...

On August 3, 1995, amid rising tensions between Sean “Diddy” Combs’ burgeoning Bad Boy empire and Suge Knight’s menacing collective of Death Row inmates, literal outcasts André “André 3000” Benjamin ...

An open road is not a personal racetrack, but some seem to think differently. In these top ten states, road racing occurs at unprecedented rates. Rates of street racing are on the rise. Over the past ...