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 ...

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, ...

In hip-hop, 1997 was the year of the Shiny Suit. Yes—there were great, decidedly non-shiny albums; but we all know what defined that year's sound and image. From ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty) has been hella busy taking the beauty and fashion industries by storm with the launches of Fenty Beauty and Savage x Fenty, leaving her navy of fans to wonder if she ...

In recent years, Chris Brown and Rihanna's publicly troubled relationship created shocking headlines that repeatedly threatened to overload the Internet. But nothing they did was ever as literally ...

Yes, it’s true. Donald Glover is ditching his rap alias Childish Gambino after his third album. The rapper-actor hinted that he was hanging up the mic during his performance at the 2017 Governors Ball ...

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.

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 ...