Has hip-hop matured enough for its practitioners to deserve a place in the pantheon of dance legends? Philadelphia's Rennie Harris thinks so. The dreadlocked choreographer has embarked on a ...

R&B songstress and unofficial Ja Rule/Fat Joe Verzus MVP Ashanti has regained ownership of her masters and is now planning to re-record her 2002 self-titled debut album—a thing many music lovers had ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Feb. 27, 2002: Atlanta duo OutKast further solidified their status as hip-hop greats with a big Grammy win on this day in 2002. The album's first ...

Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ of Run-DMC whose real name was Jason Mizell, was shot dead in his Queens studio nearly 18 years ago at the age of 37. Two men have been charged in the fatal shooting ...

Tavis Smiley talks to two of the pioneers of hip-hop on the Web: Steven Juon is founder and webmaster of one of the oldest hip-hop sites, The Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive, OHHLA.com, and Felicia ...

Astrologers took note last week as a rare alignment graced their star charts. The auspicious sign: one Eminem, two No. 1 slots. This year’s prince of hip-hop scored a pleasing symmetry, with the film ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. After a bit of foreplay, Todd Boyd launches headlong into the made-to-provoke thesis ...

Today in hip hop history, in 2002, 50 Cent released ‘Guess Who’s Back?’. It was a compilation of street hits from his past street releases and mixtapes. However, it was this offering that would ...

NEW YORK — Nearly two decades after the slaying of hip hop star Jam Master Jay, federal prosecutors said Monday they have solved one of New York City’s most enduring unsolved killings, charging two ...

IT'S A TUESDAY night in early August and 25 people -- a mix of whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics -- have their feet planted on a scuffed hardwood floor at Joy of Motion dance studio in Bethesda.