Hip-Hop Honors News

BROOKLYN, New York - Usually when hip-hop heads new and old gather to celebrate someone being recognized as a "VH1 Hip Hop Honors" inductee, it's a pioneering act like LL Cool J , Rakim or Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

I do this for Hip Hop! VH1 Hip Hop Honors celebrates 25 years of Def Jam I have yet to be officially invited to the VH1 Hip Hop Honors.

Pioneer rapper Flavor Flav of Public Enemy, a man of the times, performs in VH1's salute to Def Jam records.

Celebrating 25 years of def jams, Hip-Hop Honors attendees tell VIBE their favorite albums from the illest label to do it.

Some of the biggest names in hip-hop, including Eminem, Redman, Method Man, Mary J. Blige, Ghostface Killah, Public Enemy, Wale, the Roots, and Kid Rock, joined forces for a concert Wednesday night in Brooklyn to pay tribute to one of hip-hop's most influential building blocks: Def Jam Records, a label that supported formative artists like LL Cool ...

During Vh1 's Hip Hop Honors Awards show taping on Wednesday in Brookly, New York [ click to read ], Wale , who last appeared as part of the house band [ click to read ] for MTV 's Music Video Awards , gave tribute to Kanye West for his contributions to music.

BROOKLYN, New York - For five years, VH1's "Hip Hop Honors" has paid homage to legendary hip-hop figures, from Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur to Big Daddy Kane.

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Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons wants you to "Get Your Money Right." Simmons and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network are among the sponsors of a national conference on financial empowerment being held Saturday at the Greensboro Coliseum.

Whitney Houston may have flubbed her comeback performance on "Good Morning America" -- see story on page 3D -- but her new album is off to a solid start.

Anyone who caught the last Hip Hop Honors awards show on VH1 knows that the musical art form made up of beats and rhymes has become a cultural movement far bigger and deffer than any of its early practitioners likely envisioned it.