In 1979, Kurt Walker, a 20-year-old from the Bronx whose stage name was “Kurtis Blow,” signed a contract with Mercury Records to release the song Christmas Rappin. This was the first time a major ...

Old skool hip-hop showed the kids a thing or two Sunday night at the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show. The "original gangsters" Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre performed with Dre's mentee Eminem, the Queen ...

Black and Blue, DeepThinka Records and the Icon have gotten together to organize a series of “throwback concerts”. The first oneis tonight and will feature hip hop legends Kool G Rap, Raekwon The Chef ...

Coming out of the fertile early '80s New York rap scene, Whodini were one of the first rap groups to add a straight R&B twist to their music, thus laying the groundwork for the new jack swing movement ...

Bass in the Place Events presents Beatz in the Heat — the ultimate daytime party. This time, we’re taking over Plymouth’s freshest new rooftop spot, Level 33. Suns blazing, cocktails flowing, and DJs ...

On Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em, legendary New York MC Rakim proclaims: “I’m the arsenal, I got artillery, lyrics are ammo….” Senegalese-born French rapper MC Solaar compares his mic to body armour and ...

Every room in TRUE Skool’s office in the lower level of the former Grand Avenue Mall buzzed with energy. Music reverberated off the walls in one small room, rimmed with shelves stacked with vinyl ...

Old skool hip-hop showed the kids a thing or two Sunday night at the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show. Old skool hip-hop showed the kids a thing or two Sunday night at the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI ...