Back in 1986 Run–D.M.C. symbolically broken down the walls between the Rock-n-Roll and Hip Hop world in their music video for "Walk This Way." Paving the way for diversity in the genres, Rap and Rock joined forces on numerous occasions, even off-shooting sub-genres of Rap...
Founding member of pioneering Hip Hop band Run-DMC, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels has traveled an extraordinary journey through life. Growing up in New York City, his affection for music could not be denied, and by the age of fourteen years old, he was already a self-taught...
The people at Long Island based media management company uniphi good subscribe to a unified philosophy that all good is good. Combining their social awareness with the arts, back in 2014, they put together the first ever East End Music & Arts Festival, held on...
In the early 1980s, it was anyone’s guess where the tradition known as “Hip-Hop” would be taken. From DJ Kool Herc’s introduction of the Jamaican tradition of toasting to Gil Scott-Heron’s spoken word poetry to Afrika Bambaataa’s flamboyant fashion sense and push for social solidarity,...
