Exactly 15 years after the Grammy Awards handed out their first trophy in a rap category, the genre and the appeal for it had grown exponentially. By the 2000s, hip-hop was the dominant global culture ...

2004. What a time to be alive. It was the year of flip phones, 4x throwback jerseys and tall white T-shirts in abundance. Hip-hop music-wise, the South was starting its cobra-clutch on the genre and ...