Though not well-known today, Moore was instrumental in hip-hop’s early mainstream success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, ...

He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...

By Clay Risen Angie Stone, a hip-hop pioneer in the late 1970s with the Sequence, one of the first all-female rap groups, who later switched gears as a solo R&B star with hits like “No More Rain ...

Revolutionaries M-1 and Stic.man celebrate dead prez's 25th milestone in Brooklyn, highlighting their impact on socially conscious Hip-Hop.

By Angel Diaz J.B. Moore, a key contributor to some of hip-hop’s earliest hits, died in Manhattan on March 13 of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Though not well-known today, Moore was instrumental ...