We have come a long way from both hip hop’s conception and studio recording — obviously, one is much further in the rear view than the other. As one of the culture’s leading voices to this day, living ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, the rapper turned actor Will Smith along with DJ Jazzy Jeff released their second LP, He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper. This was the first double album in Hip Hop in its ...

38 years ago today, Philadelphia’s most celebrated Hip Hop duo officially stepped onto the scene when DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince released their debut album Rock The House. Dropped in 1987 on ...

The past, present, and future of hip-hop came united in one glorious celebration on Feb. 5, when the 65th Annual Grammy Awards paid tribute to 50 years of hip-hop, and DJ Jazzy Jeff had one of the ...

Hip-hop first emerged in the Bronx during the 1970s as a creative outlet for Black communities grappling with social and economic hardships. Born out of block parties and street corner cyphers, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Grammy Award-winning duo will be joined by LL Cool J, Queen Latifah and more celebrated rap stars during this televised ...

NEW YORK - 1992: (L-R) Q-Tip, Ali Shaeed Muhammad of the hip hop group "A Tribe Called Quest" pose with Chuck D of "Public Enemy" for a portrait session in 1992 in New York. (Photo by Al ...

DJ Jazzy Jeff is mourning the loss of DJ Gary O, another pioneering Philly artist. Jeff shared the news via Instagram on Thursday (December 19) and lamented the number of friends/Hip-Hop legends ...

The late J Dilla is among the hip-hop greats being honored at the Kennedy Center’s inaugural hip-hop festival. The late Slum Village member J Dilla, along with Rakim and DJ Jazzy Jeff, is one of the ...

I should’ve known that something was in the air when the first songs I heard at the biggest jazz music festival in the world were by Outkast, Arrested Development, Common, and A Tribe Called Quest. As ...

From watching his father perform with jazz luminaries as a child to producing for hip-hop royalty, Karriem Riggins has spent his life at the intersection of musical worlds. The Detroit native, who ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Andre 3000 attends "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style", the 2025 Costume Institute Benefit, at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor ...