To celebrate the golden anniversary of hip-hop, we rounded up 35 essential hits. These songs were hugely significant for the genre's growth and made an impact on the music industry. Our picks are ...

The 2000s marked a turning point for hip hop, transforming it from a street-born movement into a dominant global and commercial force. Superstar MCs, regional scene explosions, and cross-genre ...

Led by Jason Ikeem Rodgers, Orchestra Noir is reimagining early 2000s hits on stage and drawing new audiences to classical ...

Raj Smoove grew up surrounded by great New Orleans musicians. His father, Roger Dickerson Sr., is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated pianist and now retired educator who introduced his son to Allen and Reggie ...

Since hip-hop's inception, the genre has exponentially grown with every single decade, and the 2000s era was no different. Hip-hop saw even more commercial success than before; it succeeded in ...

CUYAHOGA FALL, Ohio - The tour’s title is a query, “Where The Party At?” The answer on a balmy Tuesday evening was Blossom Music Center, as a quartet of turn-of-the-century hip-hop stars Nelly, Eve, ...

With songs like "Let Me Blow Ya Mind," "Satisfaction" and "Tambourine," Eve's music was a staple of early 2000s hip-hop. In her new memoir, Who's That Girl? Eve and co-author Kathy Iandoli detail the ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill and Lil’ Kim deconstructed barriers that negated the artistic expression of female rappers in mainstream hip-hop music. In their records, ...

Irv Gotti, the hip hop producer and music executive who co-founded the Murder Inc. label and was instrumental in the rise of stars like DMX, Ja Rule and Ashanti, died Wednesday. He was 54. His cause ...

Southern rap rose to prominence in the mid‑1990s, offering an alternative to the East‑West Coast rivalry. According to the ...