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When hip-hop blew up, Kurtis Blow was there. His 1980 song "The Breaks" became the second rap track to reach the Top 5 of Billboard magazine's R&B chart .

While everyone is excited about 50's return to the hard core with his new album.

Rap-rock, as a genre, has a bad connotation. In many cases, rightly so. The music world has been exposed to plenty of hip-hop-meets-rock incarnations since Steven Tyler busted through Run DMC's wall back in the day.

Microsoft has announced that it will hold another Xtival "online party weekender" between 27 and 29 November.

Jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis is 75. Writer P.J. O'Rourke is 62. Pianist Yanni is 55.

B USTER DOUGLAS , former heavyweight champion of the world, steps into the ring Friday at the Ramada at the Philadelphia Airport in a Celebrity Boxing bout.

It's Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ, By Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeno, powerHouse Books, $22.95. The Rat That Got Away, by Allen Jones with Mark Naison, Fordham University Press, $29.95. What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, By Michael Rosen, ...

Thrifty Tunes 11.15.09: Slade - Slayed Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on 11.15.2009 Marc Bolan created it, David Bowie made it famous, the New York Dolls made it trashy and Kiss made it a circus, but the English band Slade may have perfected it.

Robin Baker Leacock new film A Passion for Giving, is rolling out throughout the country on select local PBS stations through the end of the year including Syracuse on PBS station WCNY on Sunday, Nove.

The FUSE Network will countdown the 20 Hottest Hip Hop Videos EVER created. So who do you think made the list and who do you think is #1? Jay-Z? More info: "20 Hottest Hip Hop Videos" Premieres on Wednesday, November 11 at 10p ET Fuse, Madison Square Garden's national television music network, is counting down the top 20 hip hop videos of all time ...

It's Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ, By Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeno, powerHouse Books, $22.95. The Rat That Got Away, by Allen Jones with Mark Naison, Fordham University Press, $29.95. What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, By Michael Rosen, ...

Fourteen years after he vanished from the bestseller lists following his 1995 thriller "The Juror," Green returns with this sui generis novel .

Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up to them half cocked and ask them to play that new song by such and such -- you ...

's fourth major-label album, "Before I Self Destruct," has been moved--again. The album originally was slated for a December 2008 release, which was pushed back to Nov.

Nio: 'very much a Californian' Carlos Nio had a change of heart around the age of 28, one that is at once thought-provoking and controversial.

Chef Unique Johnson proudly shows off her stuffed cheeseburgers and fries at Hollis Famous Burgers.

Run-D.M.C. may be following in the footsteps of U2 and Billy Joel. U.K.' s The Guardian reported last week that producer Paula Wagner is in preliminary talks to create a rap opera featuring the iconic '80s group's back catalog.

A standout of this year's RESFEST , Just For Kicks is the first feature-length documentary to look at the phenomenon of sneaker culture.

From Run DMC to Lil' Wayne and Jay-Z, music has made a dramatic change in the lives of many individuals, young and old.

Children's Aid and Family Services Hosting Adoption Celebration - Special Guest Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC By Mel Fabrikant Wednesday, October 28 2009, 02:44 PM EDT Children's Aid and Family Services is hosting an Adoption Celebration to launch its new Adoption Services on Sunday, November 15, 2009, from 1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. at its Adoption ...