African-American DJs, such as Grandmaster Flash and the Jamaican-born 'father of hip-hop' Kool Herc, extended the instrumental sections (or 'breaks') from records by mixing between two identical ...

The Myth of Jamaican Toasting The narrative that hip-hop's rapping element originated from Jamaican toasting is misleading. DJ Kool Herc, often credited as a founding father of hip-hop ...

Bishop Brigante, a hip-hop musician and battle rap legend from Toronto, lost his fight with colorectal cancer and died at the ...

Canadian Hip-Hop Icon Bishop Brigante Remembered After Courageous Cancer Fight—Drake, The Alchemist, and More Honor His ...

Hip-hop came naturally to Johnson, albeit under tragic circumstances. Johnson’s father, Jason, was a Savannah, Georgia-based rapper known as Camoflauge who was a prominent local figure with an ...