Hive Five: Our daily listicle of musical musings Last week's contribution to the growing list of things acceptable to make fun of Nas about involved...
While many musical historians look at the '90s as the decade in which "alternative" and hip-hop music exploded from the underground into the mainstrea...
SpaceGhostPurrp is the glue that bonds the modern rap scene together. Well, at least he could be, if he didn't dwell in the same shadowy nooks his mu...
2Pac lives! Well, at least in an all new advanced technological form, as a holographic depiction of the meant-to-be-deceased rapper took to the stage ...
When you've clocked up a couple of million in your online-only fee-free checking account, there's only one sport befitting of your status, and that pa...
When soul and funk artist Jimmy Castor passed away this past Monday (Jan. 16) in Las Vegas, the singer and saxophonist left behind a world of uptempo ...
Run-DMC 's "Christmas in Hollis" has established itself as the token rap song to put on your cliched Christmas playlist. But beyond Run and DMC's merr...
In a hip-hop world frequently fueled by combustible personalities, there is perhaps none more combustible than that of L.A. rapper Game . Seemingly t...
Sometimes the clowns really do get the last laugh. For most of their two-decade career, the face-painted Detroit rap duo the Insane Clown Posse (Vio...
Debuting in 1989 on infamous West Coast label Ruthless Records with this classic No One Can Do It Better album, Dallas rapper D.O.C. became an integ...
Some hip-hop heads like to talk about the "four pillars" of hip hop, as defined by Afrika Bambaataa: rapping, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti painti...
