This year, NPR, along with member stations, has been marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. One of those stations, KEXP in Seattle, has been celebrating with a weekly podcast, 50 Years Of Hip-Hop.

When DJ Asha began her career as a teenager in London in the 1990s, she had to be choosy about which vinyl records she brought to gigs. DJ Asha plays a Mary J. Blige record on vinyl in Birmingham, ...

DJ Scratch is a phenom! As a DJ, he is on Mt. Rushmore, but he’s more at the intersection where heavies like Jay-Z, EPMD, RUN DMC, Wu-Tang and others meet. Check out this exclusive interview with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before he was streaming live with industry ties, DJ Akademiks was born to a humble Jamaican family. His father, who worked as ...

The album arrives through DJ Scratch’s Albany Park Records, the label he launched in 2023. DJ Scratch and Planet Asia’s collaborative album, Kings Dominion, arrived October 24 through the EPMD ...

LL Cool J has announced a hip-hop festival at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens this Summer. And not surprisingly he asked longtime friend and collaborator DJ Scratch to participate. It’s one of many ...

When I need to make space to get some writing done or test another piece of gear, it closes up and slides neatly between the ...