The 2000s marked a turning point for hip hop, transforming it from a street-born movement into a dominant global and commercial force. Superstar MCs, regional scene explosions, and cross-genre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nipsey Hussle The emergence of significant DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music may have effectively ended the mixtape era. Before ...

At first many dismissed it as a fad when it exploded out of the Bronx after a dance party in the summer of 1973 where Dj Kool Herc used two turntables to switch back and forth between two records to ...

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...

In 2025, Atlanta hip-hop—from scene veterans like Jermaine Dupri to newcomers like BunnaB—got real nostalgic for the late 2000s. Trap stars like Quavo and mall rats like Skooly and Young Dro made ...

T-Pain’s catalog includes both solo hits and unforgettable collaborations that defined an era. His use of auto-tune and storytelling helped shape the sound of 2000s and 2010s Hip Hop and R&B.

Raj Smoove grew up surrounded by great New Orleans musicians. His father, Roger Dickerson Sr., is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated pianist and now retired educator who introduced his son to Allen and Reggie ...

Hip-hop fans were surprised this week when several of Lil Wayne’s iconic mixtapes from the 2000s, including the entire Da Drought series and Dedication, appeared on major streaming services like Apple ...

There’s a scene that anyone who came up in hip-hop culture in the late 90s or early 2000s remembers clearly: walking into a ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The theme of SeaWorld San Diego’s summer concert series this year is R&B, hip hop and rap hits from the ’90s and early 2000s. Waka Flocka, Fat Joe, Ying Yang Twins, Ginuwine, ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I never want to be the guy who’s like, “hip-hop was better back in the ...