While the culture of hip-hop was born in the 1970s, the creative style and the music that it’s become famous for has had a wild ride over the ensuing decades. Acts like Run-DMC helped to promulgate ...

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.

How a rap battle at a party led to The Game meeting Kanye West and eventually making one of the best West Coast rap songs of ...

The 2000s reshaped music forever, blending pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B into a genre-defying golden era that produced icons still dominating charts today. From arena-filling rock bands to ...

Think back to when you first heard one of those songs that just seemed to be everywhere. You know the ones. Playing on every radio station, blasting from car windows, stuck in your head for days. The ...

Popular music experienced a massive upheaval during the ‘00s, when the high record sales of the Nineties crash-landed, record-store chains closed en masse, and tech companies started beckoning ...

CUYAHOGA FALL, Ohio - The tour’s title is a query, “Where The Party At?” The answer on a balmy Tuesday evening was Blossom Music Center, as a quartet of turn-of-the-century hip-hop stars Nelly, Eve, ...

You can’t talk about the sounds of the 2000s without talking about Missy Elliot. With hits from “1, 2 Step” to “Get Ur Freak On,” the rapper, singer and songwriter’s cultural impact is undeniable. She ...

Here's who produced the most No. 1s on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the first quarter of the century, as part of Billboard's yearlong retrospective. After wrapping the last century on a high note that ...