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.

KRS-One has been at the helm of several of rap's most memorable beefs—some historic (The Bridge Wars) and some bizarre (the time he tried to have Nelly banned). But one of the most infamous KRS-One ...

A "female rapper" is a rapper. So to highlight all of the great rap songs from women over the years, we ranked the most classic cuts over the last 38 years of great hip-hop records. There's some pop ...

No era in hip-hop is more mythologized these days than the 1990s. And no regional sound from "way back when" has become more hyped than the "boom bap" of the East Coast during that period. But 90s ...

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Although he's probably best known to most people for his songs about sex, love and... sex, the fact is that politics have always played a very important role in Prince's music and lyrics. In fact, the ...

Ghost Town DJ's DJ Demp, Rodney Terry, Greg Street, Virgo Williams and Kamren Davis, may be called one-hit wonders, but their single, “My Boo” is a staple in hip-hop and R&B culture. The success of ...

On August 3, 1995, amid rising tensions between Sean “Diddy” Combs’ burgeoning Bad Boy empire and Suge Knight’s menacing collective of Death Row inmates, literal outcasts André “André 3000” Benjamin ...

Remember about 14 years ago when Making The Band was a thing for pretty much every network attempting to draw in viewership? Well, one of those shows, BET's Blowin' Up Fatty Koo recently resurfaced ...

The Cash Money Records that exists today barely resembles the local operation it once was. Whether you call it YMCMB, Young Money or Cash Money, the label is undoubtedly one of the most prominent ...

Hip-Hop is accepted as a contact sport by most participants and can lead to a heated war of words or worse. Few artists have a better grasp of the rules of engagement than 50 Cent, who has made a ...

The 1990s were a great time in music; as evidenced by the barrage of 90s nostalgia that's been popping up everywhere from primetime sitcoms to music videos lately. But it was an especially great time ...