Roc-A-Fella

On this day, Dec. 4, Beanie Sigel released his fourth studio album 'The Solution.'

This winter Nike will relaunch a classic Air Force 1 sneaker from their archives.

He put some Roc-A-Fella plaques up there, too.

Roc-A-Fella Records Co-Founder Kareem "Biggs" Burke is bringing the Reasonable Doubt pop-up to NYC.

"People go to jail--people get killed for this type of stuff." Dame Dash's interview this morning (March 13) on The Breakfast Club grew pretty contentious pretty quickly. When hosts Charlamagne tha God and Angela Yee asked the mogul and Roc-A-Fella co-founder about how he, a Harlem guy, got so inextricably tied to a Brooklyn native like Jay Z, Dash wasn't having any of it...

Is the Roc back in the building? It's definitely a possibility. During an interview with Sway In The Morning, Freeway shed light on a possible reunion with his boys consisting of Jay Z, Kanye West, Beanie Sigel, Dipset, and more. Let's just say, it's not a pipe-dream...

Just when you thought the legal battle was over... Earlier this month former engineer for Roc-A-Fella Records, Chauncey Mahan, tried to extort Jay Z for $20 million, claiming he would sell the masters for the "lost" records created during 1998-2002, if he was not paid his dues...

Previously: Dame Dash Calls Music Executive Lyor Cohen “A Fake CEO” Dame Dash And Cam’ron Open A New Restaurant Funkmaster Flex And Dame Dash Call Each Other Out

This year, it seems the trend in hip-hop is nostalgia. In the past few months, we’ve seen crews like Dipset and G-Unit come together to make music that recaptures their original formidable years. With all this talk of the rap game recreating the golden years of the late 1990s/early 2000s, the thought of Capone-N-Noreaga and Tragedy Khadafi hitting the studio again isn’t surprising...

Previously: With So Many Reunions, Is Hip-Hop Back In The Early 2000s? Puff Daddy And Mase Reunite... On Instagram G-Unit Reunites At Summer Jam, Fight Breaks Out  

Caught up in all the Jay Z-Solange hoopla was the extortion case Hov was pursuing against former Roc-A-Fella engineer, Chauncey Mahan. To give you a brief refresher, Mahan claimed that he had the master recordings of Jay Z records that were recorded between 1998-2002 and thought to be lost forever...

On Feb. 10, 2004, hip-hop was introduced to Kanye West, the rapper, with his debut album College Dropout. The singles from this album were soulful and awe-inspiring. The execution of the roll out was near-perfect, and Kanye crafted a well-rounded debut body of work that at the time was the total contrast to the street anthems that were being pumped out over the radio...