Grandmaster Flash and Frank Langella share a birthday today. Check out our photo slideshow of celebrities and other famous ...

On this date in 1958, a man who will forever reform the stance of the turntable was born; Joseph Saddler best known as ...

He helped create the soundtrack to rap. On the sidelines of a Twitch SXSW event, the hip-hop forebear raises his eyebrows at trading turntables for a Touch Bar. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media ...

When Grandmaster Flash appeared on The Masked Singer this week, the Bronx-born hip-hop pioneer made sure to keep his legacy intact — choosing to compete on the series’ New York Night and customizing ...

During this week’s episode of The Masked Singer, viewers were shocked to find out that the person behind the Polar Bear costume was none other than Grandmaster Flash. “In the world today, there’s a ...

See which rappers have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Grandmaster Flash, Furious Five in Rock Hall - Today in Hip-Hop Grandmaster Flash, Furious Five in Rock Hall - Today in Hip-Hop ...

Grandmaster Flash used to spin records at Bronx hotspots like Disco Fever (Photo by David Corio/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) “Has it been 10 years? Wow, time flies pretty quickly,” marvels ...

Grandmaster Flash's first single alongside the Furious Five MC's that rapped over his music live — reminiscent of The Get Down's Fantastic Four plus One rapping over Shaolin Fantastic — the song ...

Baz Luhrmann has never been one to worry too much about the historical accuracy of the music in his films; think Jay Z in Roaring Twenties Manhattan (“The Great Gatsby”) or Elton John in ...

Grandmaster Flash is one of the most important figures in hip-hop. He began his career in the 1970s as one of the Bronx's trinity of powerful and influential DJs along with Kool Herc and Afrika ...

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are synonymous with the birth of hip hop. Flash was the group's mastermind, and in the late 1970s, the group's performances in New York public parks and ...