Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay ...

GloRilla and T-Pain are set to receive special honors at 2025 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards, which will be held on Aug. 28 in Los ...

TEC Leimert, a local non-profit, teamed up with Serato and Undefeated to host a free beat making workshop called the Audio ...

Ozzy Osbourne and his band, Black Sabbath, transformed music in more ways than one.

Hundreds of hip-hop songs deserve recognition for their meaning and their beats. But for now, in random order, are 50 essential hip-hop tracks to celebrate five decades of groundbreaking music.

HotNewHipHop closes February with top hip-hop releases, highlighting innovation, diversity, and the genre’s evolution.

As music critic Nelson George wrote, the song was a springboard, "heralding the 808 as the foundation of hip-hop's future and Run-D.M.C. as the genre's new kings." ...

This summer marks a vital anniversary in the history of American music. Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a Jamaican-born DJ named Kool Herc helped his sister throw a back-to-school party in the ...

Mixing hip-hop and house music, lifting liberally from James Brown background singer Lyn Collins’ 1971 song “Think About It,” Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock’s 1988 smash was also an ode to ...

Few songs have ever arrived like a breath of fresh air in hip hop in the way that “Passin’ Me By” did. The Pharcyde was a West Coast hip hop group that arrived during the peak of gangsta rap.

In 1995, the Detroit Free Press photographed the Hip Hop Shop, where local rappers cut their teeth before fame. Here are some never-before-seen shots.