Throughout its history, hip-hop has provided the world with plenty of headlines. We're taking a look at the most important events in the genre's history that have taken place in each year since 1973.

No era in hip-hop is more mythologized these days than the 1990s. And no regional sound from "way back when" has become more hyped than the "boom bap" of the East Coast during that period. But 90s ...

Ciara’s legal battle against her ex-fiancee Future is about to get really messy. CiCi has filed documents in conjunction with her $15 million lawsuit against Future. The latest filings puts the ...

Lauryn Hill may have won the hearts of millions when she released The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill back in 1998. But Robert Glasper claims the singer wasn’t the gifted mastermind the music industry ...

Throughout her storied career, veteran songbird Gladys Knight has witnessed artists break into the music business, for better or for worse. In an interview with MSNBC's The Grio, the 72-year-old ...

Four years before the release of her sophomore album, Never Say Never, the music industry was officially introduced to songbird Brandy Norwood with her debut album Brandy. So many wanted to know more ...

Music videos were pretty riveting and complex back in the late '90s and early 2000s. Directors such as Hype Williams and Director X, to name a few, were masters at creating epic videos to complement ...

It's not an everyday occurrence to hear an unknown artist garner comparisons to a young Stevie Wonder, but such was life for Alicia Keys before her transformation into one of the biggest stars in all ...

The past year has been an incredible 12 months for hip-hop. The entire year has been bursting with quality tracks, mixtapes and albums. It seems almost all of the big names dropped at least something, ...

Chris Brown is one of the most beloved and controversial singers of our time. He's proved that he's a remarkable force in R&B ever since the release of his self-titled debut album in 2005. Like his ...

The Cash Money Records that exists today barely resembles the local operation it once was. Whether you call it YMCMB, Young Money or Cash Money, the label is undoubtedly one of the most prominent ...

Listening to hip-hop music, it's easy to believe that just about every rapper shares the same come-up story. They grew up in the 'hood, at some point resorted to selling drugs, launched a career ...