Fatman Scoop, a well-known hip-hop artist and hype man who died in 2024, could get his own official day in New York City.

A pioneering rapper and D.J. from the Bronx, he was a key force in propelling hip-hop into the mainstream. He was accused of child sexual abuse later in his career. By Jonathan Abrams and Hannah ...

Afrika Bambaataa passed away in early April, reportedly of prostate cancer, at the age of sixty-eight. His legend is a split ...

Afrika Bambaataa, a man widely considered one of the main pioneers of hip-hop, died in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer on Thursday, according to his lawyer. He was 68. Bambaataa’s sudden death was met ...

Hip-Hop Wired visited Gotham's Chelsea location for a curated night of tunes via Sofar Sounds featuring rising vocalists.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is still making money from his short-lived career as a multilingual rapper, tax filings show. But the 34-year-old Democrat’s meteoric rise as a ...

SOMALIA: THE MUSICAL, created by Black Deaf filmmaker Jade Bryan, integrates gospel, hip-hop, and ASL into a Harlem-rooted ...

The fourth annual ceremony also featured Springsteen playing "Light My Fire" with Doors drummer John Densmore, and "Thunder ...

Researchers at New York University conducted a study to see if music taste could be an indicator of a person's psychopathy ...

Since the late ’70s, the bassist has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed nearly all of American popular music. Since the late ’70s, the bassist has ...

Jonathan P-Wright serves as Head of Music Monetization for LOOKHU TV and OpenWav, helping architect direct-to-fan revenue ...