By: Franklin Bruno

He invented the breakbeat, a key element of hip-hop.

By: Franklin Bruno

The “Master of Records” remains enigmatic despite his renown.

By: Tucker Cummings

“OH BABY, YOU… YOU GOT WHAT I NEED!”

By: Tom Nealon

His brilliance is perpetually muffled.

By: Adam McGovern

Help send Death Boogie to the largest Arts Festival in the world!

By: Joshua Glenn

How to find good hip-hop songs for your kids to listen to.

By: HILOBROW

What is this winter’s best music video?

By: Tom Nealon

“I need to start writing pieces about other people’s problems.”

By: Tom Nealon

M.C.A.’s in the back because he’s skeezin’ with a whore? No more.

By: Brian Berger

“Catch me at the flicks, Apollo rap Frederick Douglass”

By: Tom Nealon

Coyote wearing a giant clock, Loki with a fried chicken franchise.

By: Tom Nealon

Not criminal, but criminal-minded; chronicling, yet not committing.

By: Joshua Glenn

“Everybody rappin’ but they don’t know how./You shoulda seen the boy rappin’ to the cow.”

By: Tom Nealon

The parataxic pyrotechnics of hip-hop’s Ishmael Reed.

By: Alexis Madrigal

The game we played was the life he lived.