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 ...

DJs are more than music curators. They create safe spaces of joy during times of political unrest. In Trump's America, they ...

As the 50th year of hip-hop comes to a close, the AFRO salutes the pioneers of hip-hop and those who have sustained the genre for 50 years and those who carry it into the future. Started on Aug. 11, ...

The estate of the chopped-and-screwed pioneer will release four volumes of the DJ Screw Originals this month ...

JAY-Z: (Rapping) I made this just for Flex and Mister Cee. I want people to feel threatened. CHANG: As Jay-Z notes right there, Mister Cee was a hip-hop DJ and radio host for satellite radio, for 94.7 ...

The rise of electronic dance music (EDM) has been nothing short of meteoric over the past decade. What started as a niche movement in underground clubs has now evolved into a global cultural ...

Like the rest of us, Joe is admittedly struggling to understand why Drake dissed Khaled on the 'Iceman' track "Make Them Pay.

Knight is a local DJ and rapper who lives in North Park. I bought my first hip-hop single as a kid. It was the Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight.” That’s when I fell in love with hip-hop. Later on in ...

Today we celebrate the 63rd birthday of one of the true architects of Hip Hop culture, DJ pioneer Grand Wizard Theodore. Born Theodore Livingston in the Bronx in 1963, Grand Wizard Theodore is widely ...

This post focuses on Grand Wizard Theodore, highlighting his role in revolutionizing hip-hop music through the invention of scratching. Grand Wizard Theodore is known throughout the world as the man ...

Nico de Andrea & Austin Millz’s new remixes of Public Enemy’s 'Bring The Noise' lend a house pulse and Afro-rhythms to the ...

The artist is best known for the 1988 Billboard hit It Takes Two, produced with DJ E-Z Rock ...