What people seem to have forgotten is that hip-hop, in its purest form, is the domain of the DJ — that for the better part of the genre's existence, the DJs were the stars, the focus and the creative ...

I usually write this column based on whatever music I’m listening to during the week. Along with this column, my radio show on Wednesday nights follows the same idea, an hour of what I’ve been ...

Aug. 11, 1973 marks the first documented hip-hop party in the Bronx, New York, thrown by DJ Kool Herc. This is largely considered to be the birth of the genre. On the 50th anniversary of this date in ...

Hip-hop live performances started out slim and simple: two turntables and a microphone, along with the unsung hero, a simple mixer with a sturdy crossfader. Throughout the 2000s, concert presentations ...

Hip-hop began in 1973 Bronx as a voice against racism and inequality, rooted in DJing, rapping, dance, and graffiti. It later ...

On this date in 1958, a man who will forever reform the stance of the turntable was born; Joseph Saddler best known as ...

When hip-hop DJ Rob Swift went on tour with his group, the X-Ecutioners, this year, he took along the basics: vinyl records and a pair of turntables. This winter, though, when he sets out from New ...

When Jerry Leader was growing up, he made himself a toy set of DJ equipment. Two empty cereal boxes were the turntables. For the records, he cut circles out of cardboard. The needle, a plastic spoon.

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Hip-hop and everything it has influenced—from electronic dance music to modern pop ...

Beginning with looping a sample on a turntable in 1973, hip-hop’s evolution into the present day has technology baked into its DNA. Reading time 6 minutes This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 ...

HIP HOP AND PEABODY HIP HOP AND PEABODY. TRUST ME, ACTUALLY TRUST HIM. BALTIMORE HIP HOP ROYALTY PROFESSOR WENDELL PATRICK, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I NOT ONLY HAVE BELIEVED IN, YOU KNOW, SINCE I WAS A ...