Chris Chatmon, founder/CEO of the community-focused organization that includes a youth-based record label, found ‘a safe ...

A judge pushed back the trial date Tuesday for the man accused of orchestrating the killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur in a drive-by shooting near the ...

Billboard rounded up rap, R&B and Afrobeats songs by Rema, MF DOOM, Snoop Dogg, Burna Boy, Ashanti and Queen Latifah that sample and interpolate Sade.

Ahead of SNL ’s 50th anniversary special, which airs on Sunday, February 16, on NBC and Peacock, I dug deep to find the best ...

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When The i Paper culture desk decided to compile a list of the best love songs this century for Valentine’s Day, we had no ...

Chris Brown scores a historic milestone on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, becoming the second artist to reach 100 cumulative weeks at No. 1 on the radio ranking, across 11 No. 1 songs in his ...

On Lower, producer Kenny Segal’s crunchy percussion and resplendent keys bring a new dimension to Booker’s husky voice and frayed guitars.

The instrumental hip ... from 2020 to 2022 that included sexual assault. (Lorenzo “categorically denied” the charges.) Even with controversy at the end of his life, his impact on hip-hop ...

The famed longtime industry exec shaped the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was pivotal in Def Jam’s late-Nineties revival ...

By Alex Williams and John Yoon Irv Gotti, who rose from spinning records as a D.J. in Queens parks to become a hip-hop and R&B titan as a founder of Murder Inc. Records, a label that turned Ja ...