On the latest episode of “Drink Champs,” N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN sat down with Cold Crush Brothers founder member DJ Charlie Chase. Chase was pivotal in the ascension of Hip Hop back in the 1970s. A multi ...

DJ Kool Herc is known as the father of the DJ breakbeat — isolating and repeating breaks, the most danceable portions of songs that form part of the foundation of modern hip-hop. He also wrote the ...

Somewhere between the time DJ Kool Herc got the party started in the 1970s and LL Cool J’s star turn on MTV Unplugged in 1991, hip-hop went mainstream. First it conquered the ‘burbs. Then it went ...

NEW YORK (CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Music's most popular genre is celebrating a milestone. August 11 marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The industry has generated billions of dollars and created some ...

Hip hop has something that most music can’t claim — a specific birthdate. Classical? Jazz? Polka? Country or rock or pop? They might point to a century and a continent. But hip hop has a date — Aug.

There’s a new elevated crime drama coming soon from a familiar pedigree. MGM+’s new crime drama, Hotel Cocaine, takes audiences into Miami’s tumultuous cocaine era of the 1970s and ’80s. From the ...

Maybe there is hope for political hip hop after all. Last week DJ Kool Herc—known as the godfather of hip hop for using breakbeats and toasting in the streets of the Bronx in the bad old 1970s—led the ...

LL Cool J gave DJ Kool Herc an incredible tribute for his 2023 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction at the Brooklyn ceremony tonight. The speech started with LL Cool J looking back on how Kool Herc ...

*DJ Kool Herc, credited as one of the pioneers of hip-hop, is suing HBO over the use of his identity, name and voice in the show “Vinyl,” produced by Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and others, according ...

The godfather of hip-hop, DJ Kool Herc, inducted by LL Cool J received the Musical Influence Award at this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame In 2021, LL Cool J was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of ...

The legend says he is inviting all the big names to come out, saying it is going to be “huge.” DJ Kool Herc and his sister, Cindy Campbell, are heading back to their homeland of Jamaica for a special ...