With most of the hip-hop world’s mind still on the Kendrick and Drake beef, a number of rap releases in these early January-February months are getting overlooked. There are many hip-hop projects ...

Turning poetic pens into megaphones, hip hop has always announced the realities of environments where poverty, crime, ...

On this day in 1958, Tracy Morrow—better known as Ice-T—was born in Newark, New Jersey. Despite his East Coast origins, he ...

Music producer Irv Gotti found himself thrust in the spotlight when he was slammed with money laundering charges.