August 11, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of the house party largely credited with the creation of hip-hop. Although the various elements of what we’ve come to know as the world’s most popular ...

Hip-hop star Keith Grayson — the East Harlem graffiti tagger, radio disc jockey, mixtape master, MC battle referee and recording artist better known as DJ Kay Slay — died Sunday, due to complications ...

In the late-’90s and early-2000s, Soul 2 Soul on Thursday nights at the House of Blues was “like the biggest cornerstone of New Orleans hip-hop in that era,” says Raj Smoove. The New Orleans DJ and ...

In the chronicles of Hip Hop, the tale of the DJs who formed the genre’s foundation is a significant but frequently ignored episode. More than just record players, they were the masterminds behind a ...

Keith Grayson, better known to hip hop faithfuls as New York City's DJ Kay Slay, died on Sunday following an extended bout with COVID-19, his family confirmed. The news of the 55-year-old's passing ...

The decade of the 2000s was an incredibly important one for rap music. In these 10 years, hip-hop legends either launched their careers with iconic debuts, or continued their already-dominant runs ...

DJ Unk, whose real name was Anthony Platt, has sadly passed away, as confirmed by a heartfelt social media post from his wife, Sherkita Long-Platt. Reports indicate that he was either 42 or 43 years ...

As the legendary DJ Premiere once said, “Hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different. And to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.” Rap music ...

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the ...

Nelly has sparked a debate after crediting the years from 1999 to 2010 as the "hardest era" of hip-hop music. Nelly has sparked a debate after crediting the years from 1999 to 2010 as the “hardest era ...

Okayplayer chats with Alchemist about his new joint albums, Prodigy, Future and more. 56 minutes ago Going from “dope” to “decked out,” the Y2K era introduced fads that would define female rappers of ...

For Austin Rapbaum, consistency is key. It’s his brand: If there’s something you enjoy doing, figure out a way to just show up daily, he says. So in late 2018, the New Orleans-based rapper and ...