"Tupac back! Yes Tupac back!” Last night (April 15) in Indio, California, the deceased, cultural icon Tupac Shakur made for a Death Row reunion by joining ...

[Editor's Note: On the song "You Drinking Too Much" off his Greenlight 4 mixtape, Bow Wow raps, "If XXL don’t give me the cover, I’m ...

Vanilla Ice is way past his rapping heyday, but the one-time popular rapper still finds himself having to deny rumors that allegedly happened many moons ...

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Make the crew, get the chain. It’s a time-honored tradition in hip-hop. Who could ever forget the footage of Jay-Z and Damon Dash welcoming Kanye ...

Suge Knight was once the most feared man in hip-hop. Legend has it that he walked into the Ruthless Records offices and demanded that Dr. ...

An artist dispute with a record label is nothing new to music biz. It’s par for the course, as some of the biggest names in ...

Rockers and R&B heads had long been in the business of indulging the gluttonous appetites of their fans with double albums—long before rappers took up ...

What’s hip-hop music if not an outlet to combat life’s hardships? Since its early days, the culture has acted as a platform for oppressed and ...