In the chronicles of Hip Hop, the tale of the DJs who formed the genre’s foundation is a significant but frequently ignored episode. More than just record players, they were the masterminds behind a ...

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...

DJ Skoot is honoring hip-hop on the water. The Carnival Cruise Line DJ has a playlist for the genre’s 50th birthday, and he recently spoke to rolling out about it all. One of Alabama A&M University’s ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout ...

Ahead of Super Bowl LIX, Apple Music has commissioned New Orleans DJs and producers Mannie Fresh, Legatron Prime, KLC the Drum Major and DJ Poppa to create a set of DJ mixes highlighting the city's ...

The DJ and MC are certainly the dynamic duo of hip-hop music. One provides music, the other provides lyrics, and together they can rock a party and deliver a show that is the epitome of exhilaration.

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Cordae, GloRilla, and Lil Durk. After a couple of weeks without very many new rap albums, the floodgates appear to have opened, ...

New Jersey’s DJ Juice, a hip-hop mixtape pioneer, has died. SiriusXM and LL Cool J’s Rock the Bells Radio reports that Juice, born Brian Short, was 54. Starting in the ’90s, the award-winning DJ was ...