From the beginning, DJing was the most important aspect of hip-hop culture. The genre and culture were born from the mid-70s boom with underground DJs spinning funk and disco break loops at basement ...

After a harrowing 2007 — a year that started with the arrest of leading mix-tape maker DJ Drama — hip-hop mix tapes played it cool in 2008. Collections co-signed by top-level talent were scarce, ...

Ryan Hemsworth is back with a new mix, Just Rap, for the men's retailer Frank & Oak. (He recently made most of his old mixes available for free download, so you can catch up on the back catalog ...

A good rap/rock fusion seems as elusive as a tasty low-cal dessert. It worked 25 years ago in the hands of Run-D.M.C and Rick Rubin, but the rash of thick-skulled rap-metal that sprung up in the late ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 9, 2024 at 8:47 am August 9, 2024 at 9:51 am ...

BISMARCK-One North Dakota musician has a different way of spitting rhymes: rapping along to his wife's violin.Bismarck couple Josh and Tara Bohlen started rapping and playing together in April as ...

This week’s B Side cover story is about Houston Rap (Sinecure), a new photo book on the hip-hop scene in the biggest city in the state where everything is bigger. It’s a dense book packed with quotes ...

Marco Cervantes grew up in North Houston, soaking up the sounds of country, disco and Mexican polkas flowing from records on his family’s turntable, a device that would later spin him into a world of ...

The proportion of rap songs that referenced depression, suicide and mental health struggles more than doubled between 1998 and 2018, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...