Christopher found his passion in writing about Hip-Hop when he was 15 years old creating blogs for MySpace and Facebook. A graduate of Print Journalism from Hampton University, Chris has a desire to ...

Remember about 14 years ago when Making The Band was a thing for pretty much every network attempting to draw in viewership? Well, one of those shows, BET's Blowin' Up Fatty Koo recently resurfaced ...

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 ...

If you haven't noticed, there aren't hype men on stage like there used to be back in the day. While the beat-boxer or the two backup dancers like Scoob and Scrap Lover are not completely gone from the ...

On August 3, 1995, amid rising tensions between Sean “Diddy” Combs’ burgeoning Bad Boy empire and Suge Knight’s menacing collective of Death Row inmates, literal outcasts André “André 3000” Benjamin ...

It may be Halloween this Friday (Oct. 31), but that doesn't mean you can't get an early Christmas gift from the folks at XXL. In a bootylicious supercut, the mag that boasts "hip-hop on a higher level ...

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 ...

New Edition has quite a legacy. The six-man R&B group has amassed a serious discography of hits. From their early days as an 80s bubblegum teen act through their evolution into polished 90s R&B ...

Think Kanye West's recent engagement and wedding to reality star Kim Kardashian ignited a crazy media spectacle? Imagine if he had done what music legend Sly Stone did on June 5, 1974 -- gotten ...

Over the better part of the last four decades, an innumerable amount of rap albums have been released. During the genre's humble beginnings, most of these albums were products of rappers from the East ...

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 ...