KRS-One

KRS-One is pouring one out for Phife Dawg in his tribute song to the fallen rapper.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have released the single "Buckshot" with KRS-One in anticipation of their upcoming album, "This Unruly Mess I've Made."

We present the latest edition of Songs of the Week featuring new tracks from Juicy J, R&B newcomer Anderson .Paak and rap pioneer KRS-One.

Twenty-five years after its release, we take a trip down memory lane and highlight the dopest tracks from the effort. Check out five best songs from Boogie Down Production's Edutainment album below.

From the random to the serious and everything in between, check out 100 Hip-Hop Facts That Will Blow Your Mind.

Does the Treacherous Three's 'Feel the Heartbeat' sound better flipped by the legendary KRS-One or newcomer Troy Ave?

From Sugar Hill Gang to Biz Markie to Kanye to Drake, this is the abbreviated history of crooning MCs.

April showers don't just mean May flowers. The spring month also blooms with iambic pentameters and tetrameters, marking National Poetry Month. Since it's birth in the Bronx in the late '70s, hip-hop has often been tied to poetry, with MCs often considering themselves spoken-word poets who rhythmically deliver prose over a beat...

Artists have been known to play number games within their lyrics from time to time. Only some singers are able to carry metaphorical word problems but rappers love to implement math in a bar or two. Some are simple enough to grasp while others make listeners pull out the notepad and calculator...

The truth is KRS-One has always existed in extremes. The celebrated Bronx, N.Y., MC evolved from giving birth to the controversial rap genre known as gangsta rap to dropping a politically conscious classic. He was leader of the influential hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, who crafted their landmark 1987 debut 'Criminal Minded,' then a year later they released the startling LP 'By All Means N