Spend the final week of 2024 with Russell Thompkins Jr. & the New Stylistics, Hip-Hop Holiday Honors, Be’la Dona at the Birchmere, Teen-Beat Showcase, Sammy Rae & the Friends, and two art exhibits.

When the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” debuted in 1979, I remember it as a moment of connection. My parents purchased the 12-inch extended single for my sister and me. And, like many kids, we ...

It Takes Two rapper Rob Base died at 59 after a battle with cancer. His music, made with his childhood friend DJ E-Z Rock, filled dancefloors.

Albany's Wiz Hoffa reflects on 30 years in hip-hop ahead of his all-star Empire Underground celebration.

Lovers & Friends, a daylong music festival, attracted dozens of artists and thousands of their fans to Las Vegas. Usher, Mariah Carey, 50 Cent, Eve, Christina Aguilera, Nelly, En Vogue, Da Brat, Busta ...

DJ Jazzy Jeff is mourning the loss of DJ Gary O, another pioneering Philly artist. Jeff shared the news via Instagram on Thursday (December 19) and lamented the number of friends/Hip-Hop legends ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...