This year, NPR, along with member stations, has been marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. One of those stations, KEXP in Seattle, has been celebrating with a weekly podcast, 50 Years Of Hip-Hop.

When DJ Asha began her career as a teenager in London in the 1990s, she had to be choosy about which vinyl records she brought to gigs. DJ Asha plays a Mary J. Blige record on vinyl in Birmingham, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before he was streaming live with industry ties, DJ Akademiks was born to a humble Jamaican family. His father, who worked as ...

Dusty Henry of KEXP's 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast explores a groundbreaking innovation by 12-year-old Theodore Livingston, aka Grand Wizzard... In 1977, a 12-year-old invented record scratching and ...

If you’ve spent any time tuned into hip-hop media over the past decade or so, you’ve likely crossed paths with DJ Akademiks. The 34-year-old commentator and provocateur has gained notoriety over the ...

SACRAMENTO — A former DJ had to scratch plans to catalog his classic record collection with nearly 4,000 pieces of vinyl. Erik Winkelman said he's been playing the same old tune for months now, ...