Rakim is showing off one of his lesser known talents -- DJing. "The R" is seen getting on the ones and twos in a video from East New York Entertainment. The nine-minute clip shows Ra mixing and ...

The performance, introduced by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, featured a montage showcasing Marley Marl’s profound contributions to the genre, as reported by Vibe. Speaking to the audience at the BET ...

The legendary rapper was long rumored to have penned DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's classic summer anthem. By Angel Diaz Will Smith recently resurfaced a clip of him talking to the legendary Rakim ...

In the history of the Hip-Hop, few artists have had as great an impact on the development and progression of the art forms lyrical style as Rakim Allah. Universally referenced as one of the Masters of ...

The late J Dilla is among the hip-hop greats being honored at the Kennedy Center’s inaugural hip-hop festival. The late Slum Village member J Dilla, along with Rakim and DJ Jazzy Jeff, is one of the ...

It’s not bragging when you can back it up like rap god Rakim. And 35 years after Eric B. & Rakim dropped their debut single, the 1986 classic “Eric B. Is President,” the legendary rapper would still ...

On the strength of some genre-defining albums and a flow that birthed a thousand MC's, Rakim has a clear claim to the status of one of hip-hop's leading lights. But over a 25-plus-year career, and ...

Yesterday— August 11, 2013 —marked the 40th anniversary of DJ Kool Herc's very first block party in the Bronx, where the then-sixteen-year-old kid started a revolution that wound up turning popular ...

When hip-hop got its start 50 years ago, it was a DJ cutting between two record albums and an MC rhyming over the beats. The the rhymes had predictable patterns; they almost always fell at the ends of ...

LL Cool J and Rakim took the stage at the 2023 BET Hip-Hop Awards for an action-packed performance in honor of legendary Hip-Hop producer and pioneer DJ Marley Marl. The recipient of this year’s I Am ...