18 Shots Fired During Rick Ross Attack, Frank Ocean to Rock Grammys Despite Injury & More Contrary to 50 Cent's claims, spent casings indicate that there were 18 shots fired during Rick Ross' recent ...

Michael Jackson's sister Rebbie Jackson is mourning the passing of her husband, Nathaniel Brown. After fighting a long battle with cancer, Brown died on Sunday, Jan. 6. He leaves behind not only his ...

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 ...

Challenging authority and bucking the status quo has long been one of the more endearing and powerful qualities of hip-hop. Beginning in the early '80s where artists like Mellie Mel and his Furious 5 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

We're barely out of winter and the charts are already heating up with tracks from some of Atlanta’s next generation of hip-hop heavy-hitters. Some of these ATL rappers aren’t on national charts yet, ...

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 ...

Eventually, new jack swing would fade as R&B shifted into fusions of hip-hop and R&B that were more organic (the neo soul of artists like D'Angelo and Erykah Badu) and less dancefloor-driven (the ...

When you think of the "top five dead or alive" producers in the game, Swizz Beatz surely makes the list. The veteran studio maverick has spent the last two decades crafting chart-topping hits for some ...

When Janet Jackson was the youngest born into a family of nine talented children, she had to be able to sing or dance or something. Thankfully, she didn't disappoint, holding her own from the very ...