However, beats are the foundation of hip-hop’s legendary tracks. The beat sets the rhythm for the rap. It also makes you want to get up and dance, as these three classics from 1996 certainly do. The ...

The year 1996 was a big one for Hip-Hop. On a positive note, Dr. Dre left Death Row Records, Snoop Dogg was acquitted of murder, and the Best Rap Album category was introduced at the Grammy Awards. On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yo-Yo and Treach reflect on Naughty By Nature’s historic Grammy win on an upcoming episode of Hip-Hop Treasures. In a teaser, the ...

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, ...

21 years ago today, the Hip Hop legend 2Pac officially released his fourth album “All Eyez On Me” on February 13, 1996 by Death Row Records and Interscope Records.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It was 1979 when The Sugar Hill Gang released "Rapper's Delight," a ...

In 1991, only one album into its career, De La Soul tried to pull off an unusually audacious move. The hip-hop trio’s 1989 debut, 3 Feet High and Rising, was a dense but accessible bricolage of ...

A look at hip-hop’s transformative impact in honor of its 50th anniversary. Hip-hop was once narrowly thought of as a trend in music that would ultimately fizzle out. Now, at its 50th anniversary, hip ...