Seeing DJ Premier live with every hip-hop head in the city who knows what a legend he is was spine-tingling. A humble giant, Preemo not only gave a show for the ages, but he got intimate with the ...

Hip Hop has long been a male-dominated industry, where women have had to fight twice as hard for recognition—whether on the ...

Taigo Onez talks about straddling hip-hop and house, his goals for his Bang Le’ Dex label, and his work as electronic format ...

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since, but of course Will Smith actually started out as a rapper back in the more ...

Twenty years after his last album, the Oscar-winning — and controversial — actor returns to music, reminding the world that ...

Masters of the Mic, featuring Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane, Treach and EPMD will play Mercedes-Benz ...

Young MC’s hip-hop journey began in Queens ... And then we both paused in mutual respect to Run-D.M.C.'s famed DJ, declaring “R.I.P.” in unison. Young adds, “Davy DMX did my first demo ...

Google is celebrating the history of hip hop with -- what else -- a seriously cool Google Doodle. The interactive Doodle commemorates the 44th anniversary of the party where DJ Kool Herc is ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...