From block parties to Billboard charts, hip hop has never been one thing. This guide breaks down the major styles from old school pioneers and G-Funk grooves to modern-day drill, trap, and grime. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yukmouth (L) and Numskull of Luniz pose during KMEL Summer Jam at Shoreline Amphitheatre in 1995. (Credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty ...

New Orleans native rapper McKinley "Mac" Phipps and his wife Angelique won an Emmy Award last week for their short film, "Rap Trap: Hip Hop on Trial." It won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts, Culture and ...

Will Smith’s new album, 'Based on a True Story', marks his return to hip-hop, but genre may not have room for legacy acts or ones with Smith's baggage.

When producer Zaytoven first heard the lyrical testimonials of Atlanta hip-hop artists such as Outkast, Goodie Mob, Pastor Troy and Ghetto Mafia, he sensed a familiar spirituality in their secular ...

Hip hop has never been just one sound — it’s a collection of styles that grew from the streets into global movements. From the simple rhymes of Old Skool Rap to the raw edge of Hardcore and Gangsta ...

Yukmouth, producer Tone Capone, and singer Michael Marshall break down the making of the Bay Area Classic ‘I Got 5 On It (feat. Michael Marshall)’ Yukmouth (L) and Numskull of Luniz pose during KMEL ...

It started in a smoky trap house in East Oakland, teens banging on a table, freestyling about scrounging up enough cash to buy a twenty sack. A chant: “I got five on it.” What happened next was part ...