DJ Scratch is a phenom! As a DJ, he is on Mt. Rushmore, but he’s more at the intersection where heavies like Jay-Z, EPMD, RUN DMC, Wu-Tang and others meet. Check out this exclusive interview with ...

While this year’s VH1 Hip Hop Honors ceremony will mark six years since VH1 started the annual tradition of celebrating the best in Hip-Hop culture, it will mark two firsts as well. VH1 has announced ...

Two men have been charged in the fatal shooting of New York City hip-hop legend Jam Master Jay, a founding member of Run-DMC, whose death has remained unsolved for nearly 18 years. The men, identified ...

As the seminal hip-hop label Def Jam turns 35, it's developing a roster of eager young recruits in order to reclaim its place in the upper echelon of the game. Inside one wild night coaching two… By ...

Hip-Hop culture-defining brands VIBE and Def Jam Records joined forces for a high-energy SXSW showcase in partnership with SAG-AFTRA’s Hip-Hop Alliance. On Wednesday evening (March 15), the Hip-Hop ...

Irv Gotti, the Def Jam record executive behind the Murder Inc. label, has died. He was 54. In a statement posted to Gotti's Instagram, his family wrote, "It is with heavy hearts that we announce the ...

Three years after the indictment of two suspects, Karl Jordan, Jr. and Ronald Washington, for the murder of hip-hop star Jam Master Jay, a third man, Jay Bryant, has been charged in connection with ...

When DJ Cool Herc had that now monumental party in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973 — which is now feted as the birth of hip-hop — no one could have known where it was headed. Of course, hip-hop culture has ...

Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ of Run-DMC whose real name was Jason Mizell, was shot dead in his Queens studio nearly 18 years ago at the age of 37. Two men have been charged in the fatal shooting ...