Hip-hop's biggest crews gathered for the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards, which aired on Tuesday (Oct. 15) night. The event, hosted by the Cali O.G. Snoop Lion -- a.k.a. Uncle Snoop -- is an annual ...

There’s one thing that took a major backseat on the 2013 BET Hip-Hop Awards: actual awards. The telecast, which aired Tuesday, didn’t parcel out many trophies during its two-hour telecast. Instead ...

Complex TV has teamed with radio and digital entrepreneur Al Lindstrom and Allindstrom.com to present his annual "Hip-Hop Award Season." The series has quickly become a staple for year-end commentary ...

Jay Z, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar & More Help Make Summer 2013 Historic For Hip Hop (AllHipHop Features) Labor Day weekend has traditionally been viewed as the unofficial end to the summer, so with the ...

The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards' Best Hip-Hop Video honor went to 'Can't Hold Us,' by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton. "They let some independent hip-hop artists up here at the V-M-As!" ...

One word instantly comes to mind when you think of hip-hop in 2013: busy. From the budding superstars eager to earn their stripes to the aging icons looking to prove they can still rhyme with the best ...

This week we're looking back at the year in music through the lens of NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2013. It's the annual list assembled by our in-house experts, including NPR music editor Frannie ...

It’s lunchtime at the Dream hotel’s penthouse lounge, but aside from the late summer sunlight filtering through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the scene seems positively nocturnal. Questlove, the ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs hasn’t always agreed with FORBES’ evaluations of his wealth. “[Screw] the Forbes list,” he rapped on a Rick Ross song three years ago. “Let’s tell the truth: I ate more.” These days ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. History tends to ...

Marcyliena H. Morgan, founding director of Harvard's Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, died from complications of ...

Hip-hop has been on the upswing in the last two years, artistically expanding in both a lyrical and sonic sense. But though there are a number of gifted teenagers making excellent work, the old guard ...