The rap group Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five made music history Monday night, becoming the first hip-hop artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1982, their single The ...

The Pitchfork Music Festival 2024 gears up to bring an eclectic and vibrant lineup to the heart of the city, promising a weekend brimming with musical innovation and genre-defying performances.

Inspired by a new book tracing four pivotal years in the city’s history, hear a playlist of songs from the dawn of hip-hop that were swirling at the time. By Jonathan Mahler Hear songs from Lucy Sante ...

On this date in 1958, a man who will forever reform the stance of the turntable was born; Joseph Saddler best known as Grandmaster Flash. Amidst the infancy of hip-hop culture, Grandmaster Flash ...

So to suggest a Caucasian Anglo new-wave semi-boy band performed the original version of one of rap music's seminal tracks (instead of vice versa) would certainly cause hateful outbursts. When ...

*Nathaniel Glover, better known as Kidd Creole of the legendary rap group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a homeless man he thought was ...

With Westword’s Music Showcase going down this weekend, let’s take a quick look at what the last five hip-hop winners have been up to the last five years: The Pirate Signal (Yonnas and DJ A-What) who ...

It seems almost impossible that hip-hop would trace its origin back more than three decades to an engineering student with a penchant for experimenting with vinyl. Yet before he was Grandmaster Flash, ...