Lil Poopy Is Not Signed to Epic Records; CEO L.A. Reid Says 'NO' Contrary to reports, Lil Poopy did not secure a deal with Epic Records. Lil Poopy Signs 4-Year Deal With Epic Records Lil Poopy Signs 4 ...

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, ...

There are few people who can claim to have birthed a genre. Teddy Riley, the man behind New Jack Swing, is one of them. The 49-year-old music producer is behind some of the biggest hits from the late ...

The past year has been an incredible 12 months for hip-hop. The entire year has been bursting with quality tracks, mixtapes and albums. It seems almost all of the big names dropped at least something, ...

Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty) has been hella busy taking the beauty and fashion industries by storm with the launches of Fenty Beauty and Savage x Fenty, leaving her navy of fans to wonder if she ...

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 ...

One of hip-hop's most random rap beefs has to be KRS-One vs. Nelly. Their back-and-forth in 2002 made for one of the most bizarre and corniest beefs ever. In 2002, Nelly was one of hip-hop's biggest ...

Dance has played a major role in every genre of music. A new dance that's featured in a hip-hop song nowadays can become more popular than the rapper who created it. Before the Chicken Noodle Soup, ...

Hip-hop has played a big part in the rise of reality television. Since the late ‘90s, fans have been fascinated with rappers' lives outside of music. Some of the first iterations of reality shows ...

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 ...

Riding around the neighborhood in a car with the homies is a rite of passage for many young, black African Americans, but that same passage can also become their downfall, a fate that was nearly ...

Back in the day, long before Instagram helped turned models into stars, there were rap videos. Arguably, one of the most popular models of that era is Gloria Velez, a New York born, Florida raised ...