DJ and producer Ben Bakson. Photo Courtesy of Project Publicity DJ and producer Ben Bakson, the “Master of the Beat,” chatted about his music and his latest endeavors. He grew up an only child in a ...

In the chronicles of Hip Hop, the tale of the DJs who formed the genre’s foundation is a significant but frequently ignored episode. More than just record players, they were the masterminds behind a ...

DJ Scratch is a phenom! As a DJ, he is on Mt. Rushmore, but he’s more at the intersection where heavies like Jay-Z, EPMD, RUN DMC, Wu-Tang and others meet. Check out this exclusive interview with ...

Lil Jon stirred up a Southern hornet's nest on "The Breakfast Club" this week when he split the crunk music roots between ...

With only three episodes left, SMIRNOFF’s MASTER OF THE MIX is officially heating up as the remaining five DJs face their most demanding challenge yet: “bending the ten.” After a brief meeting with ...

Julio Rivera was 19 years old when he first felt the electricity. It was 1999, and he was in the Camuy River caves in Puerto Rico. Drum and bass music vibrated off the walls. Las Cuevas De Camuy, a ...

DJ Khaled is everything you’d expect in a conversation and more: exuberant, funny, high on life, and physically incapable of resisting the urge to gush over his now 1-year-old son, Asahd. “Everything ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

DJ Master Tee is suing producer Tony D. Pizarro, Interscope Records and its parent company Universal Music Group (UMG) over 2Pac‘s Me Against The World hit “Dear Mama.” Music Business Worldwide ...

Jam Master Jay was one of the most important figures in the world of rap music. The DJ, whose real name was Jason William Mizell, rose to fame for playing the turntables in the major group Run-DMC. He ...

Iconic DJ Funkmaster Flex says that DMX’s friends in the music industry should have done more to help the ailing rapper. The troubled rapper, 50, is in a vegetative state after suffering a drug ...