To celebrate the golden anniversary of hip-hop, we rounded up 35 essential hits. These songs were hugely significant for the genre's growth and made an impact on the music industry. Our picks are ...

Since hip-hop's inception, the genre has exponentially grown with every single decade, and the 2000s era was no different. Hip-hop saw even more commercial success than before; it succeeded in ...

While rap music has been the dominant art form on the planet for several decades now, the sonic style has also been evolving since the day it was born back in the early 1970s. But art doesn’t evolve ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...