The MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video was first given out at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.The award, according to MTV, was originally intended for hip-hop-inspired songs, not necessarily actual hip-hop music videos (which were instead honored by Best Rap Video).

When The Sugarhill Gang released breakout hit “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979, even their biggest fans couldn’t have predicted that the song would kick off three decades worth of hip hop …

South African hip-hop is forever lit—here are the 10 best SA hip-hop tracks of 2017.

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and …

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Hip-hop: Hip-hop, cultural movement that attained popularity in the 1980s and ’90s and the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form.

Below you will find the 25 best hip-hop and R&B albums (so far) of 2018, ranked. Selections and positioning are based on a weighted voting system that combined the individual rankings of our editorial team.

The South African Hip Hop Awards (SAHHA) are an annual Hip-Hop award ceremony, run by the Ritual Media Group (RMG), that will take place on 13 December 2017 at the Lyric Theatre Gold Reef City, Johannesburg.

Will it be Kendrick? Drake? A wild card? Read on to find out our picks for the best hip-hop albums so far in 2017.

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