Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting on Africa, its diaspora, and hip-hop's class acts today. On Tuesday, Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, revealed ...

We ALL Like to Party: La Di Da Di’s Jazzy Ways Continues to Hypnotize Artists (and Audiences) Almost 35 Years After its ReleaseIn 1985, as rap was just getting its sea legs, two new artists, Doug E.

Hours after being sprung from a Florida jail, old-school rapper Slick Rick returned to New York yesterday – singing the praises of freedom. “I love New York,” the Hip-Hop Hall of Famer told the Daily ...

He says the album speaks to his mentality now as a 60-year-old man. Slick Rick isn’t done telling his story over beats just yet. The English-American rapper has released his first new album of this ...

Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh have secured a spot in the Library of Congress’s preservation list this year. Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh’s iconic track “La-Di-Da-Di” is now preserved for posterity as ...

On this date thirty six ago, Hip-Hop’s greatest storyteller Slick Rick dropped his debut LP The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick on the Def Jam imprint. MC Ricky D came on the scene with the “Original ...