Basketball has been married to hip hop since the music and culture's inception in the early 1970s. There's no greater feeling for basketball players than when they make silky smooth ball-handling ...

“The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap,” a 129-song boxed set, has a very challenging (and maybe impossible) goal: pinning down a constantly evolving genre. By Jon Caramanica In 1990, hip-hop ...

Time has been kind to Three 6 Mafia, the Memphis group who back in the 1990s helped make their hometown the epicenter of one of the country’s greatest regional hip-hop scenes.

Even if rap fans' formative years weren't in the 1990s, the slang popularized during that era is still alive and well—especially in hip-hop. So, whether someone's the age of 17 or 37, words such as ...

Bill Fee was born in Lowell, Mass. and now resides in Nashua. He has been producing and writing hip hop music since 1987 and is an active advocate for the culture. He consistently works to ensure that ...