Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...

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The hit leads Billboard's 100-position Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century retrospective. Below, find a breakdown of the 2000-24 top 10. By Trevor Anderson The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” ...

'Hip Pop Princess' has gained word-of-mouth buzz and ignited a full-fledged surge in popularity. The music video for the first track and title song 'Do my thang' from Mnet's Unpretty Rapstar: Hip Pop ...

Through the years, as hip-hop has become such an undeniable staple in pop music, it's hard to tell where the rap game starts and pop culture begins. With the lines being blurred more than ever, ...

Thirty-five years ago, Shawn Caesar, urban apparel retailer Downtown Locker Room's vice president of marketing, was a hip-hop and house music-loving Baltimore teenager who fervently believed that the ...

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...