DJ Mike T, a founding member and producer of the pioneering West Coast Hip-Hop group Compton’s Most Wanted, died, according to close friend MC Eiht. Mike T was instrumental in shaping the sound that ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — While Jim Valykeo’s property looks like he lives deep in the woods, it's only a small pocket of trees surrounded by thousands of homes near the Westside Connection neighborhood ...

Salt-N-Pepa at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony (Photo credit: Nagashia Jackson) Salt-N-Pepa, a name that symbolizes their spicy and bold approach to music, emerged from Queens, New York, in 1986 ...

Pioneering female rap group Salt-N-Pepa, who are in the middle of a dispute over ownership of their masters, used their induction speeches at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday to ...

They’re still number one in the 631. Rap pioneers JVC Force put the suburbs on the hip-hop map with the iconic anthem “Strong Island” in the late 1980s — and their funk-filled ode to Long Island has ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music. By Alex Williams When Marcyliena H.

Christian Takes the Gun Parrish, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation, says he grew up in a “hip-hop desert,” on his tribe’s south-central Montana reservation south of Billings. But in the late ...

Mtulazaji “P.E.A.C.E.” Davis, a founding member of the influential Los Angeles hip-hop group Freestyle Fellowship, has died. The news was shared on the group’s social media pages. “Rest well brother P ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Loud rhythmic music with rapping vocals pulsates inside the walls of CycleYou Fitness and Sauna in Lexington on this Thursday night. Hip hop dancers are warming up in the dimly ...

Naoise O Caireallain (C) and Liam O'Hanna perform as members of Kneecap, the Northern Ireland hip-hop trio which is at the center of a free-speech row in Canada ...

In the 1990s, a Wichita hip-hop group called Danoiz almost made it big through a distribution deal with Sony and some national attention, such as play on BET. Now, two video producers are going to ...