Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting on Africa, its diaspora, and hip-hop's class acts today. On Tuesday, Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, revealed ...

We ALL Like to Party: La Di Da Di’s Jazzy Ways Continues to Hypnotize Artists (and Audiences) Almost 35 Years After its ReleaseIn 1985, as rap was just getting its sea legs, two new artists, Doug E.

SLICK RICK: Weaves a great tale. “La-di-da-di, we like to party / We don’t cause trouble, we don’t bother nobody / We’re just some men that’s on the mic / And when we rock upon the mic we rock the mic ...

Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh have secured a spot in the Library of Congress’s preservation list this year. Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh’s iconic track “La-Di-Da-Di” is now preserved for posterity as ...

On this date thirty six ago, Hip-Hop’s greatest storyteller Slick Rick dropped his debut LP The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick on the Def Jam imprint. MC Ricky D came on the scene with the “Original ...