From block parties to Billboard charts, hip hop has never been one thing. This guide breaks down the major styles from old school pioneers and G-Funk grooves to modern-day drill, trap, and grime. Hip ...

T.I. talks Trap Music and his key role in turning it into a musical genre. T.I. also offered his Mt. Rushmore of Trap Music: Trap Music originated in the Southern United States, particularly in the ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

In 2003, T.I. and other Atlanta rappers created new subgenre of rap: trap music. Twenty years later, its influence is everywhere. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: About two minutes into the song, "Y'all Scared," ...

ATLANTA — The documentary Birth of Trap Music, created by hip-hop icons Drumma Boy and T.I., is premiering at the Atlanta Film Festival on Thursday, highlighting the countless contributors who helped ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop, which began in the Bronx, New York, in August 1973. You can celebrate with the “Masters of the Mic: Hip Hop 50 Tour” at Wolf Trap in Virginia on ...

One of the cities that has been a staple in the music industry for quite some time has not always sounded the way it does today. Here's a history lesson!

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary. Producers are just as (if not more) important than MCs on a track. As much as fans care ...

A look at hip-hop’s transformative impact in honor of its 50th anniversary. Hip-hop was once narrowly thought of as a trend in music that would ultimately fizzle out. Now, at its 50th anniversary, hip ...

Hip-hop may have been born in the Bronx, but its DNA carries deep African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino influences. From DJ Kool Herc’s Jamaican breakbeats to today’s trap-dancehall fusions, ...

“Rapper’s Delight” will always be considered the song that introduced hip-hop to the masses. The Sugarhill Gang classic with its tongue-twisting opening – “I said a-hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to ...