Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the chronicles of Hip Hop, the tale of the DJs who formed the genre’s foundation is a significant but frequently ignored ...

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 ...

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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 ...

On June 27, the legendary DJ Polo died at 63. The Queens DJ is remembered for the seminal work he did with the revered MC Kool G Rap starting in the mid-1980s. As Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, they released ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, Queens rap legend Kool G Rap and DJ Polo released their debut album Road To The Riches, which now celebrates its 37th anniversary. Dropped in 1989 on the now legendary ...

Grandmaster Flash, DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Chuck D attend Columbia University's Rap Summit circa November 1993 in New York City Hip-hop is having a party. For the uninitiated, 2023 marks a ...

After years of wishful thinking and pipe dreaming, DJ Premier has granted us the dream collaboration we’ve been fantasizing about by teaming up Remy Ma and Rapsody on the same record produced by the ...

Balancing a large drink and a tray of loaded nachos in one hand, I walk up the steep stairs to my seat at the top level of Atlanta’s State Farm Arena. I hear the music before I see her. A bass-heavy ...

As a freshman sociology major at New York University in 2000, DJ Cassidy — young enough already at 18, but looking “like I was 8” — got his big break one slow, rainy night at the club Lotus in NYC’s ...

No one embodies Madison hip-hop quite like Pacal “DJ Pain 1” Bayley. The 38-year-old producer and DJ has worked with such high-profile artists as Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Public Enemy, Rick Ross, 50 ...