The soundtrack peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 and #2 Top R&B/Hip Hop chart, making it one of the highest-charting Hip-Hop film soundtracks to date. The album’s sole single “Grand Finale” featuring ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

"Just A Friend" screamed POP HIT! The "vocalist," a Long Island, New York MC, deejay and beat boxing jokester, was laughably ...

For the first time, Billboard's Hot 100 Top 40 doesn't feature a single rap song. Is this due to changing listener ...

The last time Hip-Hop wasn't in the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was 1990, marking a significant change ...

Stacker culled through news and entertainment resources to come up with a list of 20 slang words that originated from or were ...

Marcyliena H. Morgan, founding director of Harvard's Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Marcyliena H. Morgan, founding director of Harvard’s Hip Hop ...

Hip-hop pioneer Chuck D brings his powerful voice and message to Newark next month with a special spoken word performance as part of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s “Social Justice Through ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia 76ers announced the return of former mascot Hip-Hop as the team celebrates the 2001 Eastern Conference championship. He will be part of a series of tributes to ...

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo has died following a reported battle with pancreatic cancer and the hip-hop community is offering condolences. The music industry is reeling after reports surfaced on Tuesday ...

The long-awaited Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx is expected to open its doors in about a year. To help raise $50 million for construction and programming, the museum will host its second gala Wednesday ...

A new episode of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” season 13 will air on Tuesday, October 13. “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” is the second installment in VH1’s Love & Hip Hop docu-soap franchise. According to a ...