On Dec. 19, M-Eighty participated in the marathon of a lifetime. With the world record for freestyle length in his sights, the MC knocked it out of the park by rapping for an insane length of nine ...

Rap fans got a very pleasant surprise last week when Drake blessed the internet with a link to his new project, If You're Reading This It's Too Late. Containing 17 tracks, a majority of which were ...

There are few people who can claim to have birthed a genre. Teddy Riley, the man behind New Jack Swing, is one of them. The 49-year-old music producer is behind some of the biggest hits from the late ...

Dance has played a major role in every genre of music. A new dance that's featured in a hip-hop song nowadays can become more popular than the rapper who created it. Before the Chicken Noodle Soup, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

R&B singer Mario is currently mourning the loss of his mother, Shawntia Hardaway. The 31-year-old artist shared the sad news on his Instagram page. Mario shared a photo of his mother as a young child ...

It’s May 1993, and the key acts on Uptown Records' roster – Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, Heavy D., Christopher Williams and Father MC – are assembled at Universal Studios for a major moment in the label’s ...

Throughout its history, hip-hop has provided the world with plenty of headlines. We're taking a look at the most important events in the genre's history that have taken place in each year since 1973.

When it comes to streetwear brands, Timberland has quietly amassed quite the cache of collaborations. The list has surpassed singular silhouettes and is now a body of work that includes everything ...

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 ...