In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams ...

He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...

The 2025 edition, titled Power to the Poets, will highlight the enduring legacy of hip-hop as a force for truth, resistance ...

Today, we celebrate the life and legacy of Ramona Parker, better known to the Hip Hop world as Ms. Melodie, the pioneering MC ...

Fat Joe has hung out with LL Cool J more than a hundred times, but he reveals in his 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me ...

On this day in 2006, Lumumba Carson, better known as Professor X of X-Clan, passed away at 49 years old due to complications ...

Erykah Badu was the subject of Billboard's Women In Music series as its latest icon for 2025, and shared details of her ...

Nineties rapper, and the first lady of No Limit Records, Mia X, has earned a honorary doctorate and is now called Dr. Mia X ...

Fivio Foreign is sitting in a New Jersey jail facing serious legal trouble following a confrontation involving a woman in January.

The Frank White Experience is a Syracuse-based live tribute to Notorious B.I.G. that is currently touring Europe with Lil' ...

Highlights this weekend include Pascale Armand’s theatrical rebuttal to President Trump’s comments about Haiti, DJ D-Nice’s 5 ...