From Brooklyn street tales to immortal verses, The Notorious B.I.G.’s legacy still echoes through hip-hop every May 21, when ...

Thirty-two years later, Nas's ten-track masterpiece, Illmatic, is still one of the most important rap albums of all time. Here's how it changed hip-hop.

March 9 marks what would’ve been the 29th anniversary of the death of Christopher Wallace, better known as The Notorious B.I.G.—the Brooklyn-born rapper whose voice, flow, and storytelling changed hip ...