What people seem to have forgotten is that hip-hop, in its purest form, is the domain of the DJ — that for the better part of the genre's existence, the DJs were the stars, the focus and the creative ...

Hip-hop live performances started out slim and simple: two turntables and a microphone, along with the unsung hero, a simple mixer with a sturdy crossfader. Throughout the 2000s, concert presentations ...

Aug. 11, 1973 marks the first documented hip-hop party in the Bronx, New York, thrown by DJ Kool Herc. This is largely considered to be the birth of the genre. On the 50th anniversary of this date in ...

On this date in 1958, a man who will forever reform the stance of the turntable was born; Joseph Saddler best known as ...

I usually write this column based on whatever music I’m listening to during the week. Along with this column, my radio show on Wednesday nights follows the same idea, an hour of what I’ve been ...

When hip-hop DJ Rob Swift went on tour with his group, the X-Ecutioners, this year, he took along the basics: vinyl records and a pair of turntables. This winter, though, when he sets out from New ...

On this date in 1958, a man who will forever reform the stance of the turntable was born; Joseph Saddler best known as Grandmaster Flash. Amidst the infancy of hip-hop culture, Grandmaster Flash ...

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.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — In the early days of hip-hop ...

Producers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of house and hip-hop. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images There was a time when artists ...

Growing up on classic hip-hop in the '80s, Raheem Jarbo never dreamed he'd one day see his favorite music represented in an actual museum, much less be invited to perform and speak to kids about the ...