Rapper and actor Gene “Groove” Allen, known as one-third of the City hip-hop trip Groove B. Chill, has died unexpectedly, ...

Influence Media's Rene McLean on music catalog investments and backing SLANG, a new label and publisher developing rising hip-hop artists.

Irv Gotti, the famed hip-hop music executive from New York City, has died at the age of 54. Def Jam Recordings shared a ...

Micheal Blake goes back to the Obama Administration and now he's looking to bring his unique political brand to New York City ...

A newly filed lawsuit alleges that Sean “Diddy” Combs groped a woman for nearly four hours despite her repeated refusals and warnings that her husband knew her location.

The photo is known as the 'Mona Lisa of hip-hop' and the $6 crown sold for over half a million dollars at auction in 2020 ...

On this date in 1997, Queens duo Capone-N-Noreaga delivered the hard-hitting second single from their debut album, The War Report. Released through Tommy Boy Records, “T.O.N.Y. (Top of New York)” ...

Rapsody is the third female rapper to win Best Melodic Rap Performance, following Lauryn Hill, who won the award in 1999 for ...

A founder of Murder Inc. Records, he helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was credited as a producer on 28 ...

In a similar way, Kool Herc’s breakbeat manipulation provided the scaffolding for MCs and dancers in hip-hop’s formative years. Marginalized communities in urban centers like Chicago and New York were ...