Adrian Younge has provided the backbeat for a large swath of Black entertainment - literally. In addition to composing the ...

DJ Unk was not just a legendary DJ, rapper and producer, but a true cornerstone of our label and the imprint that he left ...

Stevie Nicks, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Jelly Roll, Missy Elliott, Usher and Dead & ...

Blavity’s Shadow and Act has an exclusive preview of this week’s upcoming episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, on MTV which ...

By Angel Diaz J.B. Moore, a key contributor to some of hip-hop’s earliest hits, died in Manhattan on March 13 of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Though not well-known today, Moore was instrumental ...

The apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx is unremarkable, except for its place in history. It is where, at ...

From the golden age of rap to present day, look at (and listen to) some of the most iconic funk samples ever used in hip-hop, and watch WE WANT THE FUNK! on PBS.

Atlanta rapper Young Scooter died on his 39th birthday Friday in a freak accident that occurred while fleeing a confrontation ...

Let’s kill it," he said. Joe Budden also referred to hip-hop in another portion of the interview, claiming that it is dead, as he stated: “This s**t is dying dead dying fast. This thing ...

“That’s a totally different meter from the way we rapped then,” Mr. Blow said in a 2019 interview with the music journalist and hip-hop historian Bill Adler for Smithsonian Magazine.

The collapse of the Jet Set nightclub roof in the Dominican Republic left at least 124 dead, including two former MLB players ...

Tony Yayo - a member of G-Unit - discussed the recent arrest of the music executive in the RICO case with DJ Vlad.