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 ...

On September 29, 1998, five major hip-hop albums were released, including Jay-Z's Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life and OutKast's Aquemini. A look at how these releases marked the beginning of the genre's real ...

Today’s hip-hop and R&B scenes are direct reflections of the genres’ transformations in 1998, particularly R&B’s shift toward a slower pace and rap’s increasing diversity of sound and commercial ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I got robbed by a crackhead on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1998. While I wish that ...

The following is my account of what many who currently write about Hip-Hop never got to experience: September 29th, 1998, Rap music’s last great legitimate release date. The store was preparing for ...

Hip-hop has transformed music, and the world at large, since it was conceived 50 years ago. In a relatively short time, it's made a massive impact on every aspect of pop culture — and fortunately, ...