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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, Chris Brown and Rihanna's publicly troubled relationship created shocking headlines that repeatedly threatened to overload the Internet. But nothing they did was ever as literally ...

R&B singer/songwriter R. Kelly revealed that despite his musical talents, he suffers from illiteracy and barely made it through grade school. The Grammy winner recently spoke at the Midwest Music ...

An open road is not a personal racetrack, but some seem to think differently. In these top ten states, road racing occurs at unprecedented rates. Rates of street racing are on the rise. Over the past ...

Havoc of Mobb Deep recently sat down with Jack Thriller of ThisIs50 where he discussed the group’s legendary beef with the late Tupac Shakur. Havoc explained how all the shade coming from Pac actually ...

An overlooked facet of rap is how it magically predicts the future at times. Jay Z foretold his own rise on the New York Times bestseller list with his 'Decoded' autobiography when he released 1998's ...

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 ...

Aug. 11, 1973 is widely considered to be the day that hip-hop was born, when DJ Kool Herc brought out his "merry-go-round" style of record-spinning during a party at 1520 Sedgewick Ave., in the Bronx, ...