11. Ka was a native of the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn and got his start in music during the ‘90s. Ka quit music ...

He was a classicist, a venerator of early-1990s New York hip-hop whose rugged beats and hard-boiled subject matter are as distant from today’s music mainstream as doo-wop was from the ’90s.

Ka came up as a rapper in New York in the early 90’s. He was part of the group Natural Elements, leaving right before they ...

He entered the scene just as it was taking shape, in New York in the 1980s, and he reached prime time when rap itself did, in the mid-90s. After being a club D.J. for years, he moved on to work as ...

DJ Clark Kent was born Rodolfo Franklin, and he got his start as New York rapper Dana Dane’s DJ in in the late ’80s, when he was in his early twenties. In the early ’90s, his remixes ...

Police in Broward County said XXXTentacion, whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy, was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was often described as one of rap's most controversial artists ...