VH1's reality show "Love and Hip Hop" highlighted rapper Joe Budden's addiction and relapse after years of sobriety.

CNN: Hip-hop highs: Long on lyrics, short on rehab

Scott-Young's previous foray into unscripted television was UPN's "Road To Stardom with Missy Elliott" -- a quasi-mash-up of "America's Next Top Model" and '"American Idol" -- back in 2005, but the treacherous family dynamics and scandalous love lives of hip-hop stars is proving to be a winning recipe.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

He has decided to start from scratch in a city that inspired his love of hip hop in the 1980s and led him to introduce rapping to the land of opera.

BBC: Magazine

That's the only way you really expand the music and let kids who are in love with hip-hop know that it's okay to try something new.

NPR: Queen Latifah on 'Trav'lin' Light'

Let them share with older white Americans their hip-hop fashions and poetry, sports and music, art and cuisine, love of democracy and desire for education, ambitions and dreams.

CNN: I see America's diverse future--in my house