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BigXthaPlug isn't afraid to challenge the status quo. But when the Dallas rapper learned he had been named Variety's hip-hop ...

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In conclusion, available data shows both positive and negative effects of hip-hop music on youth Hip Hop has been one of the most prominent musical genres on the global stage for years. Rap songs ...

After a year full of hip-hop rivalries, are they the key to marketing music, or do they run the risk of ruining the culture?

Below, Billboard’s hip-hop braintrust ranked the 50 greatest hip-hop album covers of all-time, spanning from from the genre’s earliest days, to some of the new generation’s most daring stars. Take a ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “ Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists ...

Despite The Notorious B.I.G. rapping “you never thought that hip-hop would take it his far” on his 1994 breakout single “Juicy,” even he might have been shocked to see just how far the genre has come ...

On this day, December 1, 1990, this iconic rap single with a stolen bassline peaked at No. 1 on the charts in the United ...

“The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap,” a 129-song boxed set, has a very challenging (and maybe impossible) goal: pinning down a constantly evolving genre. By Jon Caramanica In 1990, hip-hop ...