AFTER TEN YEARS AS A MIX-TAPE DJ, KARINA TOLIVER, known on the streets of New York as DJ Lazy K, names one accomplishment with extra pride: Several years ago, she was of fered a track by “this new hot ...

Was the 1990s the greatest decade in hip hop? We can all agree that it's certainly one of its most formative eras. A decade where the genre and culture exploded from its New York City origins into a ...

Who had the best rap album of the '90s? Ask your inner 11-year-old. Yesterday, Complex posted our list of the 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s. The process of deciding what made the cut and what did not ...

Hip-hop might have been birthed in the ‘80s; however it wasn't until the ‘90s when the genre started to take off. It was an era of legends like Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, and more who earned ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

It seems as though there has never been more attention, airplay or talent agents focused on Chicago hip-hop music than there is now. Once maligned for being the biggest urban center in the country ...