The scratch is a sound. As a technique, hip-hop artists scratch by moving a vinyl record back and forth by hand. Scratching interrupts the steady movement of the record and produces endless timbral ...

Not long after MC Sha-Rock sparred with Debbie D over first female MC claims, DJ Scratch had a message for the OGs. DJ Scratch is well rooted in Hip-Hop culture. As a member of EPMD, he produced the ...

Hip-hop has always had a way of slipping into places people didn’t expect. It started in parks and rec centers in the Bronx during the 1970s – DJs extending breakbeats, MCs working the crowd, dancers ...

That's just one of the morals of "Scratch," Doug Pray's engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary about the birth and continuing artistic growth of the hip-hop DJ. The film opens with the ...

Tonight, the new series Hip Hop Treasures, which follows the search for lost Hip Hop memorabilia, premieres on A&E. Led by LL COOL J and Ice T alongside collectors and museum curators, they will tell ...

In the lower levels of the Cambridge Community Center, a handful of young musicians are singing and rapping, matching their voices to beats composed by fellow artists. A few are behind the wall of a ...

BRIMMING with talent and energy, "Scratch" is a music documentary that should appeal to more than just hardcore hip-hop fans. Focusing on the evolution of the hip-hop DJ, or "turntablist," it mixes ...