Throughout its history, hip-hop has provided the world with plenty of headlines. We're taking a look at the most important events in the genre's history that have taken place in each year since 1973.

Today in hip-hop history we celebrate over 25 years of laughter with the debut of the hit show Martin. One of Bad Boy Records' leading men celebrates a birthday and more. Yolanda currently hosts "The ...

Nate Dogg, whose real name is Nathaniel D. Hale, was arguably the "Golden Voice" of West Coast hip-hop. He delivered his smooth, velvety tones on song choruses for artists like Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Snoop ...

Forty-five years ago today (August 11, 1973), DJ Kool Herc spinned funk and soul records at a rec room in the Bronx, N.Y., that would spark a movement and culture that would be known as hip-hop. No ...

Aug. 11, 1973 is widely considered to be the day that hip-hop was born, when DJ Kool Herc brought out his "merry-go-round" style of record-spinning during a party at 1520 Sedgewick Ave., in the Bronx, ...

Jazz and hip-hop share the same cultural lineage in the music culture. Jazz emerged out of many different types of black music such as slave songs, ragtime and the blues. And much like jazz, hip-hop - ...

On August 3, 1995, amid rising tensions between Sean “Diddy” Combs’ burgeoning Bad Boy empire and Suge Knight’s menacing collective of Death Row inmates, literal outcasts André “André 3000” Benjamin ...

The ‘90s wasn’t just the golden age of hip-hop, it was also an era when R&B singers took the term 'rock star' to new heights. Bubble-gum pop (think New Edition), was up against sexed-up ballads sung ...

If you haven't noticed, there aren't hype men on stage like there used to be back in the day. While the beat-boxer or the two backup dancers like Scoob and Scrap Lover are not completely gone from the ...

The bling-encrusted lettering. The outrageous photos superimposed on lavish backgrounds. The wild colors. There's no denying that Pen & Pixel covers are one of the defining elements of '90s hip-hop, ...

Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty) has been hella busy taking the beauty and fashion industries by storm with the launches of Fenty Beauty and Savage x Fenty, leaving her navy of fans to wonder if she ...

In the early 2000's you couldn't turn on your radio without hearing a Ja Rule and Ashanti song. Their albums and singles as individual artists were successful, but when they joined forces, they ...