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After a six year hiatus, "VH1 Hip Hop Honors" will be returning this year with the theme All Hail The Queens.  This years event will pay honors to the female pioneers and vanguards who broke down barriers in the largely male-dominated genre of hip hop and paved the way for a greater feminine presence.  In addition to being  honored at VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens, Queen Latifah will also function as the event's executive producer.

Queen Latifah emerged as a force to be reckoned with when she released her debut album, All Hail The Queen, in 1989.  The album was propelled to success on the back of the single “Wrath of My Madness,” and its feminist anthem, “Ladies First,&rdqu

Nipsey Hussle has released the latest track in his Marathon Mondays series, "Question #1," where he teams up with Snoop Dogg to remind listeners about the harsh reality of gang violence.

Listen to "Question #1" here.

While both rappers have known affiliations with the Crips, neither Nipsey Hussle or Snoop glamorize gang life. The song's title refers to the question "Where you from?," a question which both rappers say could get you killed, depending on the answer. “Where you from? I don’t bang. Where you live? Where you hang? Say the wrong thing, get banged,” Snoop raps.

Nipsey Hustle is still working on his new album &quo

Hamilton, the hip hop musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, made an impressive showing at this year's Tony Awards.  By winning 11 Tonys, including one for Best Musical, Hamilton fell just short of the record of 12, which currently belongs to The Producers.  In addition to winning the highly vaunted Best Musical Tony, Hamilton also took home prizes for Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Direction, and Best Choreography.  Leslie Odom Jr. (Best Lead Actor), Daveed Diggs (Best Featured Actor), and Renee Ellse Goldsberry (Best Featured Actress) also took home Tony awards for their performances in Hamilton.

The groundbreaking musical, which chronicles the life of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, made its Off-Broadway debut in February of 2015, and it pr

James Bomb, part of Public Enemy's S1W group, has just dropped his first solo single, "Trapped Music."

On the blues influenced "Trapped Music," Bomb details the problems of modern society that have been glorified and commercialized by modern hip-hop. "I'm too advanced for this heroin dance music," Bomb raps. "Rap fused with the confusion of the prescription drug you're using, or the molly that Miley's on. Black entertainment via Viacom." The track was written by James and Eric Muhammad and was produced by Public Enemy's Chuck D.

Bomb was part of the Unity Force security group with Professor Griff. When Griff joined Public Enemy, Unity Force joined Public Enemy as the S1W group, which performed alongside Publ

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers announced on Thursday that it will be awarding A Tribe Called Quest their Golden Note Award.  The award will be presented during the 29th Annual Rhythm and Soul Music Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles on June 23rd.  The ceremony will also include a tribute to Phife Dawg, who recently passed away in March due to complications with diabetes.

A Tribe Called Quest unleashed their signature fusion of jazz and hip hop with 1990's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, and they went on to release four more albums in a career that spawned nearly 10 years.  Critics and fans alike regard their two following albums, Low End Thoery and Midnight Marauders, as seminal hip hop c

The Foreign Exchange's latest album – "Takes From The Land Of Milk And Honey."

Matthijs Rook, better know as Nicolay is a well known hip-hop and R&B producer from the Netherlands. He is one half of The Foreign Exchange, a group created with American rapper Phonte. The two artists created Foreign Exchange the independent label and have been releasing music since the early 2000’s.

Since his first release, Nicolay has changed direction in his approach to managing the music industry and evolving his own sound. Nicolay attempts to keep an analogue sound to his music with the use of live instruments rather than using samples. In an interview with HipHopDX (