Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 7, 1987, the Beastie Boys' record-breaking debut album Licensed To Ill became the first-ever hip-hop album to chart at No ...

The only BDP album that featured DJ Scott La Rock, the art on the Criminal Minded cover was meant to convey what the new incarnation of 1960s freedom fighters would look like as 1987 Hip-Hoppers. It ...

Forty years after Raising Hell changed the direction of hip-hop, Run-D.M.C.'s landmark album continues to stand as one of the genre's defining releases.

Writer Shad Reed gets past the trends and into the immortal albums that have shaped Hip-Hop. An onslaught of Hip-Hop “Mount Rushmores ” has recently flooded social media and various internet spaces to ...