In the latest episode of Fresh Pair, Just Blaze and Katty Customs show off a slickly designed pair of Nike Air Force 1s for veteran producer El-P of Company Flow and Run The Jewels. El-P, who was a ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Jan. 11, 1991: After back-to-back successful albums with 1988's Strictly Business and 1989's Unfinished Business, Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith, ...

50 Cent hasn’t dropped a new album since 2014, but the rapper admitted he’s found recent inspiration in Eminem’s verse on Nas’ track “EPMD 2.” In an interview with People Magazine for People in 10, 50 ...

1989: Still flying high from their critically acclaimed debut album, Strictly Business, Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith dropped EPMD’s second album, Unfinished Business, the following year. Mixing in ...

When did you fall in love with hip hop!? Was it after hearing the classic rap song “Rapper’s Delight” by the pioneering Sugar Hill Gang? Or perhaps it was after hearing the rhyming styles of big-name ...

The reunion of rap duo EPMD during VH1’s Hip-Hop Honors Week won’t be the only stop for the group, according to their DJ, Scratch. The pair is also in the early stages of planning a world tour. But in ...

Learn about the amazing life of MF Doom and check out an exclusive conversation between Parrish Smith and Prime Minister Pete Nice. The late great MF DOOM was one of the most creative Hip-Hoppers in ...

When the Long Island Music Hall of Fame’s founders established the organization in 2004, speeches like the ones EPMD’s Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith gave to accept their group’s induction were ...

Erick Sermon of EPMD confessed to the crowd that he hadn’t been to Staten Island in 30 years, then joked that he was only 35 years old. His banter throughout the night involved telling the audience ...

Kanye West may not be feeling Jay-Z’s “Suit & Tie” look, but we’re guessing that even Yeezy would choose his Watch the Throne partner’s grown-man style over the head-to-toe pink outfit Jigga was ...