He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...

Moore was a key figure in the then-burgeoning rap genre, writing and producing hits like "The Breaks" and "Christmas Rappin'" ...

Day one of the two-day hip-hop festival featured standout performances from YG, Sexyy Red, Ski Mask The Slump God, Xavier ...

The album’s title track, “Poison”, became an instant classic, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and dominating clubs ...

To commemorate Women's History Month, World Cafe is looking back on a century's worth of music history. Every week in March, we're pinpointing distinct moments of every year from the past 100 years, a ...

Heather Augustyn will never tell you that Hip Hop isn’t an American-born movement, but if you can’t pick up the Jamaican and ...

Mase announces triple album release on May 5 coinciding with Diddy's trial, collaborating with Cam'ron in what appears to be ...

After hitting up X on Tuesday (March 18) with a series of absolutely vile and unwarranted tweets aimed at Jay-Z, Beyoncé and ...

In honour of the 2025 Juno Awards in Vancouver, the CBC Music Top 20 has taken on the task of ranking the best songs to have ...

Professor X’s impact on Hip-Hop and Black consciousness remains undeniable. Today, we honor his legacy and his contributions to music, activism, and the ongoing fight for justice. Rest in power ...

In the sweltering summer of 2000, as millennium fever subsided and America sought its next cultural obsession, a distinctive ...