Before the east and west coast rap beef of the 1990s boiled over with the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG, legendary producer Quincy Jones called a secret meeting at which he appealed for an ...

Music-world legend Quincy Jones, arguably the greatest producer in all of pop history, has died. Jones is obviously most famous as Michael Jackson’s chief collaborator in the era when Jackson took pop ...

getting his start in the late 1980s as a DJ for Brooklyn rapper Dana Dane. Throughout the 90s, Kent would produce tracks for some of hip hop’s biggest figures. He produced the hit “Player’s ...

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.

He started producing hip-hop hits in the ’90s. He is credited with discovering Shyne, a Brooklyn rapper noted for his voice’s similarity to Biggie’s. Foxy Brown remembered her cousin on ...

Celebrated jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson has died at the age of 98. Donaldson was known for his warm, fluid style and performed with everyone from Thelonius Monk to George Benson ...

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, the proud Brooklynite who was known for his party rocking acumen, contributions to the careers of borough mates like Jay-Z, and massive sneaker collection, died on Thursday.

The N-Dubz singer and self-proclaimed ‘Female Boss’ has survived a drug sting, sex tape, and the rampant misogyny and ...

“Thought I Was Dead” is an experimentally-produced hype rap song featuring ... The main sample is a J-pop song from 1978 by ...

"Listening to music on your own is amazing. But there’s just something about doing it in a room with other people that makes ...