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 ...

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 ...

Let’s take a break from all the doom and gloom in Hip Hop as of late and take moment to give out the flowers where their due … Grandmaster Caz, Roxanne Shante, and Kool Moe Dee are set to be honored ...

The National Hip-Hop Museum (NHHM) closed out the year by honoring hip-hop legends at their Hip-Hop Holiday Honors held at the historic Bethesda Theater on Dec. 28. The recognition was in conjunction ...

Over the Fourth of July weekend, rap artists Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee, Mr. Cheeks, Dana Dane, Special Ed, Nice n Smooth, and KRS One performed at the annual hip-hop classic concert at the Mable ...

WASHINGTON — Some of the greatest names to emerge from the maiden era of hip hop and rap joined together for a night of revelry and reflection at Northeast DC's Ivy City Smokehouse Friday night. New ...

Rakim, Nice & Smooth, Pete Rock, Kool Moe Dee, Kid Capri and others were honored by The Hip Hop Museum of Washington DC! The Hip Hop Museum of Washington DC celebrated numerous legends of Hip-Hop last ...

A new set of rappers enter into the OG realm as the generations pass and it's always interesting to hear their thoughts on the newcomers. A rap report card from the late 1990s, done by 1980's MC Kool ...

On the rap report card Kool Moe Dee stuck into How Ya Like Me Now back in ’87, the old-schooler proved an easy marker — only two of the 25 pupils fell below Public Enemy at 80 B. The token nonentity ...

*A multitude of nineties hip-hop and R&B stars are hitting the road next month for a massive “I Love the 90s Tour” that will last through summer and into the fall. Salt-N-Pepa, Coolio, Kid ‘N Play, ...

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 ...