Cypress Hill Smokes the Competition: August 13 Hip-Hop History Cypress Hill arrived, Aaliyah and Jodeci released major albums and Curtis Mayfield suffered a tragic injury on Aug. 13 in hip-hop ...

Fans of both Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga were left feeling disappointed when tracks the two collaborated on, like "Partynauseous," were left off the West Coast MC's debut album, good ...

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 ...

14 “You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)” feat. Vybz Kartel Music of the Sun, 2005 Rihanna flaunts her Caribbean charm on a well-suited cover of Jamaican singer Dawn Penn’s classic ’94 hit ...

The music world was shocked on Oct. 18, 1974 when Al Green was doused with a boiling pot of grits by girlfriend Mary Woodson. Green was about to shower at his Memphis home when Woodson scalded him ...

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 ...

It was the summer of '98 when Lauryn Hill released her debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. At the time, my entire world revolved around my friends, family, and Brooklyn. I was a tomboy ...

Jazz and hip-hop share the same cultural lineage in the music culture. Jazz emerged out of many different types of black music such as slave songs, ragtime and the blues. And much like jazz, hip ...

While it’s difficult to pinpoint precisely when it was that Southern hip-hop seeped into the collective consciousness of the rap industry and asserted its dominance, only one crew can lay claim ...

In 1993, Ice Cube's “It Was a Good Day” became one the anthem of the summer. That same year, though, Queen Latifah released a single from her album Black Reign that spoke to a similar tune ...

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 ...

17 "Deuces" Remix - Chris Brown featuring Drake, T.I., Kanye West, Fabolous, & Andre 3000 2010 There are a lot of people on this track and none of them are wack. But Andre's guest spot takes it to ...