For Billboard’s 1998 Week, VIBE’s Editor-in-Chief Datwon Thomas remembers what an amazing time 1998 was for hip-hop, with his own memories from his early days as an Associate Editor at the pivotal XXL ...

OPINION: Back when albums used to be released on Tuesdays, hip-hop had a day where five eventual legends (solo or group) would drop and run all of our pockets. I got robbed by a crackhead on Tuesday, ...

Just last week, one of the topics on EW Radio was the number of genre-defining hip-hop albums hitting their twentieth anniversaries this year. Plenty of rap records had found their way to the upper ...

Master P honors late Young Bleed with an AI tribute inspired by his 'My Balls & My Word' album cover, calling him a "Soldier ...

The soundtrack peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 and #2 Top R&B/Hip Hop chart, making it one of the highest-charting Hip-Hop film soundtracks to date. The album’s sole single “Grand Finale” featuring ...

Many will write about the 15th anniversary of the last great release date in Rap history. But few truly overstand why it earned that designation and why after it there may never be another great day ...

In 1998, hip-hop was no longer a “fad” that mainstream white America thought was going to fade away. It ran the music industry. New MCs were making a name for themselves and veterans were staking ...

The boxes for the key releases had box cutters put to them and extra space was made in the Rap/Hip-Hop section. In addition, there’d be extra boxes of Jay-Z’s Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, A Tribe Called ...