HOUSTON — Michael "5000" Watts, a legendary Houston, Texas music figure credited with helping define Southern hip-hop's sound and spirit, died Friday. He was 52. Watts died Friday at Memorial Hermann ...

UGK's Pimp C and Bun B join Scarface among the best Texas rap artists of all-time on a list that also includes a lot of ...

This Friday marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a celebration of that time in 1973 when DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw a party in the Bronx and basically set off the musical and cultural ...

A temporary museum displaying dozens of hip-hop artifacts will make its way to Houston next week. The Universal Hip Hop Museum, touting itself as the official record of Hip Hop, will open in New York ...

Houston’s role in hip-hop history stretches back more than forty years, to the day in 1981 when a student named Lester “Sir” Pace defied the bosses at Texas Southern University’s KTSU during a shift ...

Monaleo Wins Breakthrough Hip-Hop Artist at AMAs Monaleo officially had a breakout year after winning Breakthrough Hip-Hop ...

That was overheard from an audience member after the three-and-a-half-hour lovefest that was Houston’s Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary, which was held at the DeLUXE Theater on Wednesday night. Rap icon Bun B ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Watts and his wife Tammie Watts are photographed at the memorial service for BeatKing, the Houston rapper known as the ...