Hip-hop's pushing 30, and with the transition from youth to -- gasp -- being grown, comes the requisite navel-gazing. From movies like "Brown Sugar" to coffee-table picture books like "Who Shot Ya?" ...

For early fans of the Philadelphia-born rap group The Roots, it might seem impossible to believe just how well-known and popular the band has become. Led by Questlove and Black Thought, The Roots are ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

The saying goes that you have your whole life to make your first album, but Saweetie would like to know where everyone else is finding the time. The 28-year-old rapper is nominated for two awards at ...