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On July 5 the sixth annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival will be kicking off with a once-in-a-lifetime pairing of hip-hop legends.The organizers of the festival have just announced that revered producers Pete Rock, DJ Premier and Large Professor will be sharing the stage for the first time on U...

In the '90s, every hip-hop-themed movie had its own original soundtrack. Classics like 'Colors,' 'Boyz N the Hood' and 'Menace II Society' came strapped with sound pieces that matched the tone of the films perfectly. Though they ranged in quality from life-changing to "say what...

Pete Rock and DJ Premier have earned their credentials as two of hip-hop's greatest producers, creating classics with artists that include Nas, Guru, M.O.P., and CL Smooth, and now the all-stars have announced plans to release a joint project...

Legendary producer Pete Rock will be headlining a tribute to jazz great Roy Ayers in Harlem, New York on April 24. Pete Rock will be joined onstage by jazz quartet The Robert Glasper Experiment, performing selections from the revered vibraphonist's catalog that will then segue into the Pete Rock joints that sampled them...

Legendary DJ's Premier and Pete Rock will take their turntable skills to Tokyo on May 2, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Manhattan Records.The Tokyo-based record label will put on a special show for turntable enthusiasts celebrating 30 years of distributing hip-hop and electronica music halfway across the globe...

Hot 97 radio host Peter Rosenberg has announced that he will be honoring revered 90's hip-hop producer Pete Rock at his upcoming Noisemakers event in New York City on April 7. Rock is best known for his classic production on 'T.R.O.Y.' with CL Smooth, and has produced similar classic tracks and remixes for Nas, Public Enemy, Ghostface Killah, AZ, Mary J...

For the most part, Kanye West has stayed underground since his snafu with Taylor Swift last year, yet we've been hearing whispers about a new record pretty consistently during the last six months. Finally, some solid details are starting to take shape...

Whether it's two MCs mixing it up or an MC and a DJ working in perfect harmony, the duo is a time-honored tradition in hip-hop. The best duos have an elusive chemistry that produces a sum greater than its parts. Toure, host of Fuse's 'Hip-Hop Shop,' gives us his top five pairings of "great tastes that also taste great together...

The new music documentary 'Copyright Criminals' takes a magnified look at samples in hip-hop and the resulting, endless copyright battles. The film, which premieres on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Toronto Film Festival, and then part of PBS' Independent Lens Series, investigates the legitimacy of famous hip-hop copyright disputes...

What better way to test out Beaterator, the new music-making application produced by Timbaland and Rockstar Games, then to have some of the hottest producers and rappers try it out? Beat connoisseurs Pete Rock, Buckshot, Jay Electronica, Twista, Ski Beatz, Dru Ha, Marco Polo and Torae sat down and tried out the tool, which allows you to create your own beat, ultimately, giving anyone the power to