Both genres recently celebrated big birthdays. From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip ...

Tone Loc Dropped His Debut 'Loc-ed After Dark' LP 36 Years Ago Tone Loc Dropped 'Loc-ed After Dark' LP 36 Years Ago ...

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s, is set to become the first solo female rapper to take home a Grammy for lifetime achievement.“I ...

After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in ...

The NYC electronic duo The Knocks and Canadian dance-pop diva Dragonette reveal the first installment of their collaboration ...

Some of the art takes hip hop’s themes or trappings and successfully ... In a fictional cross-continental rap contest set in the 1980s, the piece features two pairs of rappers – one in the ...

DJ Pauly Guwop is bringing the power of hip-hop’s golden age into Charlotte’s present with his new digital publication, It’s ...

February ends on the 28th at the Big Room with a night of East Los Angeles “souldies” with The Altons and Thee Sinseers. The Altons say that the quartet “curate (s) a ballad of retro-indie-soul” bit ...

These hip-hop one-hit wonders are still timeless today, and it's hard to stay still when they come on the radio.

Roxanne Shanté Named First Solo Female Rapper to Win Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award In an unprecedented move that celebrates her monumental contributions to hip-hop, Roxanne Shanté has become the ...