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 ...

In the '80s, hip-hop hit the mainstream, and it's stayed there in the decades since. When hip-hop emerged, it had an urgency and power that set it apart from the pop that dominated the charts, but ...

Q. Something that struck me was how in that nascent moment for the culture, you see magazines like The Source in their formative phases, when they were really just fan-driven, do-it-yourself ...

National DJ Day is commemorated on Jan. 20 every year to celebrate the work of amateur and professional disk jockeys. A 1941 Variety Magazine first published the term disc jockey, which famous radio ...

Born Thomas E. Pough, he’s best known as the legendary DJ of the iconic duo Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. Their collaboration resulted in some of the most groundbreaking tracks of the late ’80s and early ’90s ...

August 11, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of the house party largely credited with the creation of hip-hop. Although the various elements of what we’ve come to know as the world’s most popular ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

The musuem walks visitors through pivotal moments that birthed the modern DJ as we know it, from the pioneering era of the ...

DJ Clark Kent, a Brooklyn producer who worked with the greats of hip-hop, has died. His family announced his death Friday. “It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of the beloved Rodolfo A.

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

When it comes to hip-hop music, the disc jockey is the heartbeat of the genre. National DJ Day is commemorated on Jan. 20 every year to celebrate the work of amateur and professional disk jockeys. A ...