Masters of the Mic, featuring Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane, Treach and EPMD will play Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater in.

Hip hop has been an incredibly influential way of storytelling and social commentary through music, leading the genre to be the epicenter of the most influential musical artists in the history of hip ...

That last genre—hip-hop—is our focus ... been sampled by other songs 94(!) times.) Eric B. & Rakim’s “Paid in Full” from 1987 brings in the bass from quirky R&B star Dennis Edwards ...

Lady Gaga stole the spotlight at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, alongside other stellar acts, fireworks, ...

Luis Figueroa & Christian Alicea, “Si Llamas” (Sony Music Latin/Magnus Media) ...

Saba and No ID are two legends of Chicago hip-hop, from two different ... history of Chicago R&B in “Westside Bound Pt. 4.” Smino guests on the finale “A Few Songs,” and Ibeyi in ...

Here are some of the best acts who opened the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio on Friday, April 11.

So his SF performance at the Monday night party of Legacy, a North Beach bar, caught my eye — and the eye of just about every other fitted cap-wearing, old-school hip-hop head in town.

The head of Def Jam talks us through the tracks that have shaped his musical tastes and played a part in his professional ...

Ani DiFranco with special guest Wryn: 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 10-11, at Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport St., Chicago.

Although many rappers and singers supported Kamala Harris during her Presidential campaign, Nicki Minaj was nowhere near it.

The 55-year-old Combs, his beard noticeably grayer than ... showed Combs punching his former protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, and throwing her on the floor in a hotel hallway.