Hip-Hop legends DJ Kool Herc and N.W.A will be honored by the Recording Academy the night before the 2024 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy announced the recipients of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement ...

LL Cool J gave DJ Kool Herc an incredible tribute for his 2023 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction at the Brooklyn ceremony tonight. The speech started with LL Cool J looking back on how Kool Herc ...

On this day in 1955, Clive Campbell—better known to the world as DJ Kool Herc—was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At the age of 12, he relocated with his family to the Bronx, New York, where his influence ...

On this date in 1996, Washington, D.C.-based DJ Kool dropped his monumental single “Let Me Clear My Throat,” the last single from his debut LP of the same name on the American Recordings/Warner Bros.

One of these days, everyone will wake up to the collective realization that rap originated as a sub-set of dance, and thus has been (and always will be) suited to often being the best party music.

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up In 1973, Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc, hosted a party in the ...

'Thank you for believing in me and embracing me for what I've been doing' Legendary hip-hop DJ Kool DJ Red Alert, who is commemorating 40 years in radio, was honored with a statute in Harlem, New York ...

LL Cool J honored DJ Kool Herc as “one of the great founders of hip-hop” when the pioneering musical visionary received the Musical Influence Award at the 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction ...