WBLS celebrates its 50th anniversary at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Friday with DJ Cassidy’s “Pass the Mic Live!” — a ...

Kidd Creole After rising to fame as a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious ... In 2017, then working as a handyman in ...

Shortly after his family announced the legendary New York City DJ had died, Instagram and Twitter exploded with tributes to ...

Eric “E.T.” Thorngren, whose work as an engineer, producer, and remixer for artists ranging from Grandmaster Flash ... and ...

He sold drugs, too, while filling notebooks with his rhymes, inspired by the likes of Grandmaster Flash and ... of MCs who briefly made noise in the New York underground. When a subsequent project ...

Angus Batey traces the history of this magpie movement Noted Twitterer @DrSamuelJohnson recently published his first new dictionary in 250 years ... passes definition upon the genre of hip hop ...

In the 1970s, when hip-hop culture began in New York City, DJs like Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and others would throw neighbourhood parties. It was at these parties that they started to play two ...

Thereafter, a slew of New York artists – among them Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa and Marly Marl – established hip-hop as a serious force. Rather than simply a genre ...

The humble turntable has put music in a spin over the last 50 years - giving rise to a whole new genre of sound ... DJs Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa are turntablism’s ...

Pop culture gurus, rejoice. The National Museum of American History is adding a slew of new items to its “Entertainment Nation” exhibit (already home to objects like Dorothy’s ruby slippers and ...

Tang Clan District” sign on Staten Island, where the group was formed in 1992, were gone in less than two hours.