Raj Smoove grew up surrounded by great New Orleans musicians. His father, Roger Dickerson Sr., is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated pianist and now retired educator who introduced his son to Allen and Reggie ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the chronicles of Hip Hop, the tale of the DJs who formed the genre’s foundation is a significant but frequently ignored ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago, during a party at an apartment building in the Bronx, hip-hop was born. That seminal night sparked a globally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legendary hip‑hop DJ and radio host Lord Sear has died, SiriusXM’s Shade 45 confirmed Wednesday. He was 54 years old. The cause of his death was not disclosed. Shade 45, the hip‑hop station founded by ...