Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the chronicles of Hip Hop, the tale of the DJs who formed the genre's foundation is a significant but frequently ignored ...

DJ Kool Herc during RZA and Old Dirty Perform Live at BB King at BB King Blues Club Grill in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Djamilla Rosa Cochran/WireImage) Link Copied to Clipboard ...

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When I came down your street, you were gonna hear me coming before I get there,” says Antonio Kimbrough, better known as DJ ...

“The Message” is often credited with stretching what hip-hop could be — not just party music but also social commentary. Big Daddy Kane, Daddy-O of Stetsasonic and longtime hip-hop promoter Charlie ...

DJ PREMIER HAS done his homework. 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, and the dual DJ/producer has made sure to keep up with the revolutionary music genre’s evolution over time. In doing so, ...

Common can still rap at a high level. DJ Premier is an iconic producer who has really influenced many others to follow in his footsteps. His career has lasted for decades and it is pretty obvious as ...

DJ Jazzy Jeff is mourning the loss of DJ Gary O, another pioneering Philly artist. Jeff shared the news via Instagram on Thursday (December 19) and lamented the number of friends/Hip-Hop legends ...

OPINION: When Griselda’s Conway the Machine accused Funkmaster Flex and his ilk of gatekeeping, he opened up a convo about the evolution of hip-hop. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, ...

The “chopped and screwed” sound has become such a staple of hip-hop that most fans probably don’t even wonder where the slowed-down, stop-start sonic approach came from — and thus, the late DJ Screw, ...

Basketball has been married to hip hop since the music and culture's inception in the early 1970s. There's no greater feeling for basketball players than when they make silky smooth ball-handling ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...