Smif N Wessun Dropped Their Debut Album 'Dah Shinin' 31 Years Ago Smif N Wessun Dropped 'Dah Shinin' 31 Years Ago ...

City Cat Radio, the weekly radio program of Oakland’s own DJ/Producer/Engineer DJ HENROC, is designed to celebrate plain old good music including Soul, Roots, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, Afro Beat, Funk, ...

John Forté, a celebrated recording artist who worked closely with the Fugees, has died. He was 50. The musician died on ...

Grammy-nominated musician and producer John Forté has died at age 50. Forté, who is best known for his collaboration with The ...

Hip-hop has always been about control, creativity, and flipping the rules. Crypto didn’t just enter the culture as a new way to pay. It became a symbol of independence.

1996 marked a turning point in hip-hop production. The boom-bap that dominated early ’90s New York started fragmenting into ...

What happens when you mix some of the region’s most hungry emcees and producers with summer camp? The answer unfolds in “Welcome to Rap Campp,” a new documentary that captures a 24-hour marathon ...

On this date 45 years ago, Blondie released “Rapture,” a genre bending single that quietly became one of the most important ...

Deep lyrics about life’s struggles bounced to a hip hop beat at the Cellar on Treadwell in Hamden Friday night. “Best believe ...

Dupree "DoItAll" Kelly celebrated his birthday with Redman and Method Man and it became a cultural homecoming.

From Rustenburg roots to cypher dominance, local rapper Jay Wrighteous blends conscious lyrics with unstoppable energy, ...