GloRilla and T-Pain can add yet another accolade to their growing list: being the top honorees at this year's R&B/Hip-Hop ...

Grammy Award-winning artist T-Pain and multi-platinum artist GloRilla will be honored at the 2025 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards in ...

BMI's prior President's Award honorees include Benny Blanco, Luis Fonsi, Ludacris, P!nk and Taylor Swift. Its circle of ...

GloRilla and T-Pain are set to receive special honors at 2025 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards, which will be held on Aug. 5 in Los ...

TEC Leimert, a local non-profit, teamed up with Serato and Undefeated to host a free beat making workshop called the Audio ...

Hundreds of hip-hop songs deserve recognition for their meaning and their beats. But for now, in random order, are 50 essential hip-hop tracks to celebrate five decades of groundbreaking music.

HotNewHipHop closes February with top hip-hop releases, highlighting innovation, diversity, and the genre’s evolution.

As music critic Nelson George wrote, the song was a springboard, "heralding the 808 as the foundation of hip-hop's future and Run-D.M.C. as the genre's new kings." ...

This summer marks a vital anniversary in the history of American music. Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a Jamaican-born DJ named Kool Herc helped his sister throw a back-to-school party in the ...

As hip-hop ascended to global dominance, hampton—whose lowercase byline is inspired by the Black feminist critic bell hooks—challenged it from the inside, treating rap music with the ...

Mixing hip-hop and house music, lifting liberally from James Brown background singer Lyn Collins’ 1971 song “Think About It,” Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock’s 1988 smash was also an ode to ...

Few songs have ever arrived like a breath of fresh air in hip hop in the way that “Passin’ Me By” did. The Pharcyde was a West Coast hip hop group that arrived during the peak of gangsta rap.