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

WBLS celebrates its 50th anniversary at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Friday with DJ Cassidy’s Pass the Mic ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — A disciplinary trial began Tuesday for a New York City Police lieutenant who fatally shot a man during a traffic ...

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 city, which typically gets about 4.5 inches of rain in October, got nothing. Sudden dry conditions will become more ...

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 ...

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