Hip-Hop is heading back to the Bronx in celebration of its 50th anniversary. On Friday August 11th — exactly 50 years to the day that DJ Kool Herc threw the first-ever hip-hop concert in 1520 ...

DMC's DJ, Jam Master Jay, just had his murder conviction overturned last week -- a big surprise for Darryl McDaniels!!!

Jam Master Jay was one of the most influential figures in hip-hop history. One-third of the rap group Run-DMC, he was known for his talent on the turntables, turning cutting and scratching into an art ...

Two men accused of killing Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay were both close to the trailblazing DJ, but were driven by “greed and revenge” over a failed drug deal when they ambushed him at his recording ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A third man has been charged in the 2002 shooting death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, prosecutors said Tuesday, marking the latest movement in a case that languished for years.

Jordan was convicted alongside Ronald Washington by a jury in Feb. 2024 of murdering the pioneering Run-DMC DJ.

As the future DMC in Run-DMC, a 12-year-old Darryl McDaniels got his first education in hip-hop at St. Pascal Baylon Catholic school in Jamaica, Queens. “I was in seventh grade, and Billy Morris — who ...

A star-studded concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop will take place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, the birthplace of hip-hop, in August, according to Live Nation. Run-DMC will headline ...

Although Run-DMC has long since ended, we are still learning new things about some of its legendary members, most notably Jam Master Jay, who was murdered more than two decades ago in 2002. On Tuesday ...

NEW YORK — Two men were convicted of murder Tuesday in the death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, a brazen 2002 shooting in the rap legend’s studio. An anonymous Brooklyn federal jury found Karl Jordan ...

Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr, the alleged shooter, were found guilty on all counts and convicted of murdering the rapper, whose legal name was Jason Mizell and who rose to fame as a producer ...

For almost two decades, the 2002 killing of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay stood as one of the hip-hop world’s most infamous and elusive crimes, one of three long-unsolved slayings of major rap stars. Now ...