This week we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. We'll hear interviews with some of the most influential rappers and DJ's of the past few decades. Today, we kick things off with three ...

Hip-hop DJ Grandmaster Flash, master of the turntable and pioneer of hip-hop, will be headlining this year’s 2nd Street Festival, which will be held in Jackson Ward on Oct. 1-2. The 2nd Street ...

It seems almost impossible that hip-hop would trace its origin back more than three decades to an engineering student with a penchant for experimenting with vinyl. Yet before he was Grandmaster Flash, ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently held its 2022 Hip Hop Honors event, during which the organization paid tribute to icons who have served as pillars of the culture over the ...

In Baz Luhrmann’s Netflix hip-hop saga “The Get Down “ a young Grandmaster Flash (Mamoudou Athie) gives the main characters 24 hours to figure out the key to his quick mix theory. Their only clue? A ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Few musicians can lay claim to an innovation that has changed the face of popular culture but disc jockey Grandmaster Flash fits the bill. Flash, 48, was honored with the ...

GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE: Ladies and gentlemen, it's now the time for the Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five MCs. (Rapping) We're coming. We're coming. We're coming. We're coming. We ...

DJ Grandmaster Flash joined “In Focus” to take a look back on hip-hop’s evolution. He’s considered being one of the pioneers of hi-hop DJing, cutting, scratching and mixing. Grandmaster Flash ...

DJs and MCs are more than tightly bound partners. They occupy the same audible space and time, trading sounds as if they all ...

NEWARK, N.J., June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 Rock The Bells Festival, set for Saturday, June 28th at Newark's Prudential Center, just turned up the volume with the addition of two of hip-hop's ...