2003: On April 30, 2003, the term "bling bling" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The phrase—which is an ideophone that refers to flashy, often diamond-encrusted jewelry—was one ...

With all due respect to Death Row, no rap record label has ever consolidated and celebrated its power the way Cash Money Records did in the final year of the 20th century. All four albums the young ...

From the left: (a much younger) Lil Wayne, the perpetually incarcerated rapper BG, Juvenile, and those other two niggas. *Let’s dial back the criticism of today’s “millennial” rappers. They shouldn’t ...