An open road is not a personal racetrack, but some seem to think differently. In these top ten states, road racing occurs at unprecedented rates. Rates of street racing are on the rise. Over the past ...

Since 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been honoring artists in the rock, blues, soul and even country music genres. Since 2007, the museum has been adding hip-hop artists to their prestigious ...

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.

T.I. hyped Paper Trail with "Swagga Like Us," which also featured Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne. West built the track off a sample from M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes," and he and T.I. rapped over it. Then, ...

Today in hip-hop history we celebrate over 25 years of laughter with the debut of the hit show Martin. One of Bad Boy Records' leading men celebrates a birthday and more. Yolanda currently hosts "The ...

If all athletes want to be rappers, then all rappers wanted to be actors. And why not? Hip-hop at it's purest is about performance art, connecting to your audience an pushing them to feel new things, ...

Aretha Franklin's legacy in hip-hop runs as deep as her legacy in soul music. Franklin was a vocal powerhouse known for belting out classics like "Respect," “Spanish Harlem,” and "Chain of Fools." Her ...

The Game is known for being a ladies man, but before he became one of hip-hop’s top rappers, he was humiliated and dumped on a popular dating show called Change of Heart. The premise of the show ...

While most hip-hop fans knew Busta Rhymes as the breakout star from Leaders of the New School, and from his classic debut solo single “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check,” it was the music video for “Put ...

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 ...

Aug. 11, 1973 is widely considered to be the day that hip-hop was born, when DJ Kool Herc brought out his "merry-go-round" style of record-spinning during a party at 1520 Sedgewick Ave., in the Bronx, ...

Jazz and hip-hop share the same cultural lineage in the music culture. Jazz emerged out of many different types of black music such as slave songs, ragtime and the blues. And much like jazz, hip-hop - ...