Rather than simply a genre, hip-hop is a culture – one chiefly expressed and disseminated through rap music. That notion of “keeping it real” – has been at its core. As ever with popular ...

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 ...

A state Senate bill filed on Tuesday proposes adopting the song “Raise Up” as North Carolina’s official state hip-hop song.

James Brown had a massive impact on Hip-Hop. Now, 310babii’s brings the Godfather back for another trip down a soulful lane. The Godfather of Soul’s influence on hip-hop reaches a new ...

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

Throughout his long career, Roy Ayers’s music has been sampled several times, and we have eight essential songs from Ayers that were sampled by Hip-Hop and R&B stars. Countless artists have ...