While hip-hop and all of its creative expressions was born in New York City in the late 1970s, it was the 1980s when the music began to come into form. There was excitement and experimentation but ...

Throughout the years, hip-hop has intertwined with other genres. For example, in 1986, Run-DMC teamed up with Aerosmith on "Walk This Way," and in 2015, Kanye West and Rihanna joined forces with ...

From humble beginnings in Hollis, Queens, to the world stage of Live Aid, it has been more than 40 years since Run-DMC first changed hip-hop forever. Now Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons, Darryl ...

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Jam Master Jay, part of the pioneering rap trio Run DMC, was shot and killed yesterday, the group's publicist said. Publicist Tracy Miller confirmed the death of the 37-year-old rapper ...

Two men were found guilty of murder Tuesday in the 2002 killing of Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ of the groundbreaking hip hop trio Run-DMC, in a case that for decades frustrated detectives ...

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The rap group Run-DMC, from left, Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, and Jason Mizell "Jam Master Jay," poses at the 31st annual Grammy Awards in New York on March 2, 1988. (AP Photo/Mark ...