hip hop music

For a special Hip-Hop History Month feature, we took the bold initiative in crowing the 10 best rap albums to drop between 2010 to 2019.

Closing out our Hip-Hip History Month celebration, we look at 15 classic rap remixes that many prefer over the original version.

NEW YORK (AP) — Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan apologized Tuesday for flubbing the words to the late Notorious B.I.G. classic “Get Money” during VH1’s Hip Hop Honors. And he went BIG for his mea culpa. Quan’s live performance with Lil Kim on Monday night set off some on Twitter, including criticism that a rapper […]

She’s the woman you love to hate, but Karrine Steffans is laughing all the way to the bank. Her explosive tell-all book, Confessions of a Video Vixen, released in 2005, sent shockwaves throughout the hip hop industry and beyond. Since then, she’s written three New York Times bestselling books, Confessions of a Video Vixen, The Vixen Diaries, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Music mogul Russell Simmons is producing a brand new stage musical that will celebrate three generations of hip-hop, from Run DMC to Kanye West. Simmons said Thursday that “The Scenario” will feature an original story written by author and hip-hop historian Dan Charnas, author of “The Big Payback: The History of […]

Nicki Minaj’s much anticipated new single, “Pills N Potions”, was released as another track preceding her third studio album “The Pinkprint”. When asked about the new single during a Billboard interview she says, ‘It sounds like urgency. It sounds like betrayal. It sounds like running. It sounds like fainting. It sounds like love. It sounds like — *gasp!*” […]