Rap and Hip-Hop – VOXYVOTE

Jam Master Jay’s Murder Trial Exposes the Double Life of the Run-DMC DJ

In the years before his death, the Run-DMC D.J. Jam Master Jay secretly turned to the drug trade to keep providing financial support to relatives and friends, according to testimony.

The Energy Challenge: Questlove Made You an Energy Playlist

These 17 tracks will get you moving.

Mixtapes, T-Shirts and Even a Typeface Measure the Rise of Hip-Hop

New books collecting objects central to rap’s physical history demonstrate the importance of celebrating these relics before they vanish.

Tales of the Black Underworld Fuel Rap. ValTown Recounts Them.

ValTown, an account on X and other social media platforms, spotlights gangs and drug kingpins of the 1980s and 1990s — and how crime and celebrity often intersect.

Amp Fiddler, Versatile Keyboardist, Singer and Mentor, Dies at 65

A mainstay of Detroit’s soul, funk and electronic music scenes, he also offered guidance to young hip-hop and electronic music aspirants, notably J Dilla.