Having consumed a few too many lemon pepper chicken wings, DJ Kool was dozing off to the Super Bowl last Sunday when his friend and colleague Fatman Scoop called. Fatman Scoop asked whether DJ Kool ...

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The third in a series of Retropolis stories looking back at moments in hip-hop history during the week of the music genre’s 50th anniversary. What ended as the day that hip-hop was born began hours ...

DJ Terry “Kool T” Spears, 64, has been a DJ in San Diego since 1979 at venues across the county and has mentored an array of younger DJs. Prior to the pandemic, he was the “Sunday Fun Day” house DJ at ...

For anyone growing up in the 1970s or Eighties, the ensemble funk of Kool & the Gang — whose co-founder and chief songwriter Ronald “Khalis” Bell died on Wednesday at age 68 — was irresistible and ...

The hip-hop community is paying tribute to the late rap star and actor DMX, who died Friday at the age of 50. One of the pioneering New York DJs who put rap on the radio, 107.5 WBLS' Kool DJ Red Alert ...

MOSLEY: This month marks 50 years of hip-hop. To celebrate, all this week we'll be featuring interviews with some of the most influential rappers and DJs over the last 50 years. We'll start at the ...