Today marks the birthday of one of hip hop’s pioneering wordsmiths, Kool Moe Dee. Born Mohandas Dewese in New York City, the Harlem native rose to fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a member of ...

1989: Kool Moe Dee dropped off his third studio album, Knowledge Is King, which was an instant classic. Kool Moe Dee, born Mohandas Dewese, was present from the start of hip-hop's emergence as a ...

Rapper Kool Moe Dee, whose famous 1981 battle with Busy Bee may be the most influential moment in rap history, is auctioning off some of his royalties. Famous for legendary early '80s singles with his ...

Three years ago, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis took over the pop music stratosphere with a series of inescapable hits and an album, The Heist, that debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The duo’s huge ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Tonally, Wild ...

Hip-hop icon Lovebug Starski has passed away at 57. Hip-hop icon Lovebug Starski has passed away at 57. Released around the time mainstream America first started to fall in love with hip-hop, 1984's ...