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JAY-Z, Yo Gotti and Team ROC have filed a lawsuit over “dire” conditions at a Mississippi prison.

JAY-Z's legal arm, Team ROC, and Memphis rapper...

U.S. DJ superstar Diplo returned to his BBC Radio 1 slot over the weekend with another session full of musical gems. 

The Mad Decent boss...

Jay-Z will open a university next year.

Named after his entertainments company, Jay-Z's Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment will be a faculty...

Pharrell has collaborated with Jay-Z on a new track.

The new track, 'Entrepeneur', is the latest collaboration from Pharrell and Jay-Z, who have worked together on records over...

Jay-Z has posted bail and paid fines for protestors in Wisconsin.

Rapper Jay-Z, along with his legal arm, Team ROC, have been paying the bail money...

Words: Drew Millard

Gestating for nearly four years due to major-label politricks, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty, the first solo release...

Sometimes it’s not easy to remember that Gary Richards is not only Destructo, a DJ and producer with daily increasing popularity, but that he is...

Trap is the slow-rolling, synth-heavy, snare-snappin' sound that's swept underground dancefloors and stadiums alike across the US and Europe. But what is trap? Is it a genre of its own? Where does it come from? Why's it so popular — and why's it hated in equal measure? Does it have a future? Danna Takako investigates...

Phuture, Pfantasia, Phantasy Club, Photon Inc, Audio Clash, Darkman, Doomsday, P-Ditty, The Don… all past aliases for Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, the man credited with kickstarting a movement in 1987 with ‘Acid Tracks'.
Although a seismic claim to fame, this happened over a quarter century ago, most recently reactivated on Terry Farley's monumental 'Acid Rain' box-set. But, since then, Pierre has continued to chart one of the most idiosyncratic paths in house music, undyingly committed to developing new sonic mutants to send crowds bananas on his punishing schedule of globe-trotting DJ gigs.

You’re living in Europe now after a long stint in NYC. Why did you decide to move over?

“The quality of life is so much...

David Guetta is on a deadline. Posted up at his Ibiza estate, the French producer is busy at work. He doesn’t seem to be enjoying...