Hip hop has never been just one thing. It started with block parties and breakbeats, but over time, it grew into a mix of styles that each reflect different places, stories, and sounds. From the early ...

There was hardly a better time to be an aspiring rapper coming out of Chicago than 2012. That year, label scouts began flocking to the city like never before, allured by Chief Keef’s thunderous ...

Had he still been with us, Houston Hip Hop pioneer Robert Earl Davis Jr., better known around the world as DJ Screw, would be ...

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The Seattle Hip-Hop Walking Map" highlights 23 “landmarks” integral to the city’s first rap decade — from record shops to ...

Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult. By Brian ...

DJ Bigga Rankin, one of Southern rap's most influential tastemakers and mixtape pioneers, has reportedly passed away. His ...

Remember the first time a 90s rap track hit you so hard you had to rewind it? That feeling never gets old. From the raw boom bap of New York to the smooth G-funk rolling out of Compton, the 90s gave ...

Women have always been a part of hip-hop history — from the culture's B-girl days to its birth in the Bronx, NY, to today's era that sees femcees putting rap on their backs. The culture doesn't move ...

As the 50th anniversary of hip-hop has been celebrated this year, many props have been paid to the pioneers who launched the Bronx-born culture in the ‘70s and ’80s. And rightly so. However, one ’90s ...