North Carolina often isn't top of mind when thinking about the birth of hip-hop music and culture. However, historically Black colleges and universities like St. Augustine, Shaw and North Carolina ...

ASAP Ferg, Quality Control Music, Young Thug, and more headline this week’s upcoming hip-hop releases, but there’s a lot more to listen to as rappers use the waning summer months to launch their ...

Kevin Lee, better known as Coach K, is cofounder of Quality Control, the multifaceted Atlanta-based label and music-and-sports management company that has brought the world Migos, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty ...

THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE L.A. RIOTS IS UPON US – READ WHAT THE YEAR 1992 DID TO HIP-HOP Two score years ago, evil marketing genius, Big Willie Lynchman stood on the bank of the Los Angeles River ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Miami’s 2 Live Crew ...

Lee will not be returning to the Love & Hip Hop franchise for the upcoming ninth season. This isn’t surprising, as she was also not on the eighth season of the show. Lee, whose real name is Atasha ...

In 2025, Mass Appeal launched the Legend Has It...campaign that repackages hip-hop class acts as a label asset class and long ...

FatMan Scoop, the rapper, hip-hop vocalist and radio personality who scored a No. 1 hit in the U.K. with “Be Faithful” in 2003 and collaborated with top artists like Ciara and Missy Elliot, died ...

Every so often in hip-hop, we’re introduced to a new kid on the block who happens to be white; this new face gets loads of media mentions and a group of the genre’s fans wild out on the blogs—they ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Miami’s 2 Live Crew helped redraw the legal landscape around what hip-hop could be, pushing the boundaries of free speech and taste with their provocative and sexually ...