On this day in 2006, Lumumba Carson, better known as Professor X of X-Clan, passed away at 49 years old due to complications ...

The Oscar-winning actor, who is still notorious for "The Slap," is moving back to his roots in radio-friendly hip-hop with a ...

The Wichita River Festival announced its musical lineup for the 2025 festival on Monday, and several recognizable names were on the list. Among them: Flo Rida , the high-energy hip-hop performer known ...

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 ...

While hip-hop and all of its creative expressions was born in New York City in the late 1970s, it was the 1980s when the music began to come into form. There was excitement and experimentation ...

By the early 1980s, hip-hop had solidified itself as more than just a fad; it was the voice of a generation. The late ’80s and early ’90s marked what many call the golden era of hip-hop.

The 63-year-old DJ, music promoter and co-founder of Nastymix Records played an essential role in bringing hip-hop to Seattle during the early 1980s, and in turn, bringing Seattle hip-hop to the ...

AUSTELL, Ga. -- A memorial service was planned for Friday near Atlanta for Grammy-nominated R & B singer Angie Stone, who was killed in a car crash south of Montgomery, Alabama.

As one of the best hip-hop songs of the 1980s, it’s no surprise that “Bring the Noise” is on here. Some of the genre’s biggest stars have sampled the track, including Ludacris, Eminem ...

A venture capital magnate donated 10 Cybertrucks to Metro Police last month, and the Paid in Full Foundation’s Hip Hop ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...