They're all highly respected in the world of old-school rap. And they all hit the Top 40 just once in their careers.

Houston hip-hop icon Michael "5000" Watts, the founder of Swishahouse Records and a pioneer of the "chopped and screwed" sound, has passed away following a recent hospitalization.

When most people think of samples in Hip-hop, they think of classic soul and funk records. A beautifully haunting vocal sample from a singer lost in the ...

Bronx School of Hip-Hop was approved as America’s first public high school centered on Hip-Hop culture, set to open in the South Bronx in 2026. Education officials made history last month when they ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

JONESBORO, Ga. — Walking the halls of Stillwell School of the Arts takes Kevin Price back in time. His talent as a visual artist led to his love as a musical artist. Price now goes by the stage name ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

MIAMI — “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” is back for a seventh season. The show, which follows the lives of some of Miami’s most influential personalities of the culture, is saying adios with a season that ...

The wait is almost over, “Love & Hip Hop” fans! “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” is back for season 7 with drama, music and Miami heat reaching all new heights today, Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Eastern on VH1.

They’re still number one in the 631. Rap pioneers JVC Force put the suburbs on the hip-hop map with the iconic anthem “Strong Island” in the late 1980s — and their funk-filled ode to Long Island has ...

It was the late summer of 1997, and the Wu-Tang Clan was imploding. The two-fisted Staten Island, N.Y. Hip-Hop crew had been on the road with radical leftist rockers Rage Against The Machine on one of ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Wide-eyed students packed the bleachers on both sides of the gym. The marching band played in tribute and the dance and cheer teams took turns showing off routines set to the hip-hop ...