As a teenager Grandmaster Flash began pioneering the turntable-as-instrument, playing the now iconic Bronx block parties that gave birth to hip-hop and revolutionized music. On Friday, he was back ...

When Jerry Leader was growing up, he made himself a toy set of DJ equipment. Two empty cereal boxes were the turntables. For the records, he cut circles out of cardboard. The needle, a plastic spoon.

Public Enemy’s Chuck D will narrate an upcoming Audible Original series detailing a little-known story with major ramifications for the birth of hip-hop in New York’s South Bronx neighborhood in the ...

On August 10, a five-part audio documentary series titled Can You Dig It? A Hip Hop Origin Story will release on Audible. The series will be narrated by Chuck D, the world-famous frontman of the 1980s ...

Nas is rallying Hip-Hop fans worldwide with a call to unite for the Hip Hop Museum's “1 Dollar, 1 Mic, 1 Movement” campaign.