D’Angelo‘s sound transformed Black musical culture. On his birthday, he is remembered for his incredible gifts and hits.

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Vanilla Ice sees "Ice Ice Baby" return to the Billboard charts, reentering two different digital sales tallies and hitting ...

Grunge was a dominant genre in the 1990s, but it didn’t dominate everything as these heartland rock classics prove.

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The Root spoke to Amy DuBois Barnett about her debut novel which explores the good and bad of hip-hop and journalism in the late 1990s. With more than two decades of experience in journalism, ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

T he Manhattan hotel where Slick Rick is staying has exactly the kind of opulence you’d expect him to be lounging in. While waiting for our interview, I fall into a fluffy white couch in a waiting ...

Claims that hip-hop is dead have been ricocheting for decades, but on October 29th, Billboard reported that there were exactly zero rap songs in the top 40 of the Hot 100 chart, for the first time ...

We asked some of our favorite culture creators to give us their best-of lists for 2025; the rest of James Gunn's top 50 alternative rap songs of the year can be found right here. Easily my favorite ...

Wyclef Jean once explained to me the thinking behind blending pop and hip-hop. He called it “Beauty and the Beast.” It’s similar to the quiet verses and loud choruses that defined alternative rock in ...