The Legend Too $hort, Celebrating One of HipHop’s Great
Too $hort was among the first West Coast rap stars, recording three albums on his own before he made his major-label debut in 1988 with the RIAA-certified gold…
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Ghostface Killah: A Real Life Super Hero and More
Whether judged strictly by his work with Wu-Tang Clan or as a solo artist, Ghostface Killah is an indisputable giant. A masterful storyteller whose range extends from graphic…
Album Review: It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot by DMX
It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot is the debut album by American rapper DMX. It was released on May 19, 1998, by Def Jam Recordings and Ruff Ryders.…
DJ Disco Wiz
Luis Cedeño is an American DJ and is noted as being the first Latino DJ in Hip-Hop music. After being inspired at a Kool Herc jam by the emerging hip hop movement taking place in The…
Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. he first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams…
Lovebug Starski
Kevin Smith was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career as a record boy in 1971 when hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx. He…
Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler is an American hip hop recording artist and DJ and is considered to be one of the pioneers of hip hop DJing, cutting, scratching and mixing.…
DJ Kool Herc
Clive Campbell is a Jamaican native that moved to the Bronx and is widely credited as the originator of Hip Hop. In the early 1970s he hosted dance…
Afrika Bambaataa
Lance Taylor is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip-hop culture. He is one of the originators of breakbeat DJing and is…