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Kurtis Blow was barely 21 when “The Breaks” stopped hip-hop fans in their tracks. Released in 1980 as a follow-up to his debut single, “Christmas Rappin’,the song’s funky bassline coupled with Blow’s ...

Forty years ago Kurtis Blow scored big with his first single, “Christmas Rappin’.” Now the hip-hop legend is rapping every Christmas with “The Hip Hop Nutcracker.” Conceived and directed by Jennifer ...

Kurtis Blow’s “Christmas Rappin'” (get it?) is notable for being the first hip-hop track released by a major label. It was a long fight to get the music thought of as anything but novelty music by ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Kurtis Blow Courtesy of United Palace of Cultural Arts Several years ago, when asked whether he’d like to host a new stage ...

Chuck Creekmur talks with the icon and finds out the strategy that went into creating the hit holiday song. Hip-Hop pioneer Kurtis Blow will be headlining an upcoming holiday remix of a classic opera.

J.B. Moore, a key contributor to some of hip-hop’s earliest hits, died in Manhattan on March 13 of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. “One of the interesting things about our partnership,” Moore said of ...

For centuries, Christmas music was pretty conventional. Every once in a while, a “Jingle Bell Rock” or a “Santa Baby” would come along to spice things up, but most tunes made for a fairly predictable ...