Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore, and ...

In the heart of Los Angeles, where hip-hop culture and sports history intertwine, a once-overlooked image has turned into a ...

The Doors have been through wave upon wave of reappraisal over the decades, and they were in the news most recently because ...

When it opened in the 1990s, Las Vegas had never seen anything like Luxor. Now, it's one of the most hated hotels on the ...

Women's month coincides with the death of Biggie's mother, Voletta Wallace, which inspired us to honor the moms of some of the most celebrated rappers ...

The funeral of Voletta Wallace, mother of The Notorious B.I.G.-drew a star-studded gathering of hip-hop's elite in New York ...

Voletta Wallace, the mother of late hip hop legend The Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls, was laid to rest in New York City ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

Nigerian superstar Rema is redefining African pop music — and has scored a record-breaking single in the process. But he had to overcome a tragic past ...

Who killed Donald Goines? Producers of a documentary on the life of the prisoner-turned urban fiction writer of novels about the violence, drugs and prostitution that he surrounded himself with in ...