XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Feb. 17, 1998: New Orleans rapper Silkk The Shocker dropped his second and most commercially successful album, Charge It 2 Da Game, on this day. As ...

Vyshonn King Miller along with his brothers Percy and Corey helped usher Southern Hip-Hop to the rest of the world, in a number of pioneering ways. Vyshonn, professionally known as Silkk the Shocker, ...

1996: Silkk The Shocker drops off The Shocker, a debut album that would help push the Master P-guided No Limit Records along its journey to rap game dominance. Featuring loads of G-Funk instrumentals ...

The No Limit empire wasn't just built off music business genius Master P's back. Silkk the Shocker, his brother, was one of the more popular members of the famed record label. The rhymer, born ...