According to AllHipHop, four of the genre’s most revered pioneers—Rakim, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, and Kool G Rap—are said to ...

How Diddy became the last man standing in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry - Diddy has spent over three decades at ...

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Commentator Kiana Fitzgerald is looking back at the albums that changed the game. Today, it's OutKast's album Aquemini.

So much rap music comes out all the time, and especially with frequent surprise releases, it can be hard to keep track of it all. So, as a way to help keep up with all of it, here’s a roundup of ...

The album is decidedly H-Town, with contributions from Mike Dean, DJ Domo, and Devin’s partners from Odd Squad (dig the car anthem “Lacville ’79”), but in the wake of DJ Screw’s death ...

Hip-hop is an integral part of music and culture and only grows in popularity as the years pass. Despite this enduring ...

The Notorious B.I.G, Biggie Smalls, Christopher Wallace, whatever you want to call him, there's no doubt that he was by far the dominant figure of the 1990s East Coast rap world. Biggie's two ...

Known for mostly rapping about the illegal drug trade, this duo's last album came out in 2009. ... Clipse is credited with establishing Virginia as one of the East Coast’s strongholds in hip-hop.

he posed the question at the height of the East Coast/West Coast rap rivalry, ... The research shows that diss tracks and deaths more than doubled while platinum albums skyrocketed to 35.

New tracks from Thursday and Jeff Rosenstock, plus Bad Bunny's latest album. Skip to the content. ... a demand for recognition for both Joey Bada$$ and the East Coast rap scene as a whole.

Ice-T pioneered West Coast and gangsta rap in the late 1980s, while N.W.A. went platinum with its album "Straight Outta Compton" in 1988. Dogged by controversy and censorship over profane lyrics ...