The surprise witness, DJ Mix Master Ice, defended hip-hop, stating the problem is not hip-hop, but poverty, mis-education and the breakdown of the black family structure. He said the music industry ...

There's something almost absurd about it, if you think too hard. A music genre born in the Bronx in the 1970s, born from ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Nestled in the open spaces of east central Illinois, the main University of Illinois campus is widely known for its agriculture curriculum and its engineering school -- not for ...

Friday nights at the bSide are marked by DJs Why B and Kid Cut Up's innovative mixes. "I have no problem playing commercial music," says Cut Up, but both adhere to the idea that hip-hop is "more about ...