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The 45 King, Who Produced for Jay-Z and Eminem, Dies at 62

The 62-year-old Bronx native infused a distinctive jazzy flavor in his beats. He contributed tracks to Queen Latifah’s debut album…

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A Love Letter to Hip-Hop

Hip-hop repeatedly taught a community, then a nation, then the world, how to dream.

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Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul’s 10 Essential Songs

The Long Island rapper David Jolicoeur, known for his freewheeling rhyme style, has died at 54, just weeks before his…

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Reminiscing About Clothes that Shaped Hip Hop

A proud crowd of hip-hop style pioneers gathered at the Museum at F.I.T. on Tuesday night to toast the opening…

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How Questlove Pulled Off the Grammys’ Crowd-Pleasing Hip-Hop Tribute

The Roots drummer and D.J. was tapped by the Recording Academy to fit 50 years of rap history into 15…

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At Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop University, Teaching the Teachers

On a Friday morning in December the hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris was in Boulder, Colo., teaching a master class. Rather…

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