30 years ago today, one of the most criminally underrated albums of the mid 90s quietly reshaped the way heads listened to lyricism and production. On this date in 1996, Lord Finesse released his ...

For anyone who truly stands on the foundation of real Hip Hop, there is no way this day passes without saluting the legendary Lord Finesse on his 56th birthday. Born on this day in 1970, right as a ...

It’s hard to watch the 30th-anniversary performance of Lord of the Dance, a tale of a simple dance aristocrat’s battle with the forces of darkness, without thinking of its creator Michael Flatley’s ...

This week on People’s Party with Talib Kweli, Kweli and Jasmin Leigh go deep with rapper/production icon Lord Finesse, whose work with the D.I.T.C. (Diggin’ in the Crates) crew gave birth to multiple ...

When it comes to beats, Lord Finesse definitely knows what he’s doing. A living legend in hip-hop, the Bronx artist started out in the 1980s as a rapper but soon thereafter added production to his ...

1996: Bronx-born mainstay and Diggin' in the Crates leader Lorde Finesse released his third album, The Awakening on Feb. 20, 1996. Not to be confused with the 19th century Kate Chopin novel about ...

Savage or not? The amateur dancers in Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flies give extremely professional performances as William Golding's feral schoolboys. Civilization and barbarism are complex terms, ...

Tom Scott is a saxophonist, composer and bandleader who covered John Coltrane's 'Naima' for his first album, 'The Honeysuckle Breeze,' on Impulse! Records. Covers seem to be his thing -- you might ...

Lord Finesse filed a $10 million lawsuit against Mac Miller last July for using the instrumental for “Hip 2 Da Game” without his consent. After a public back and forth that went on for a few months, ...

Mac Miller‘s record company has released a statement denying charges made in a lawsuit filed against the rapper over his 2010 track, “Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza.” Hip-hop veteran Lord Finesse is ...

Veteran rapper Lord Finesse has filed a lawsuit against Mac Miller over the use of his 1995 track “Hip 2 Da Game,” reports Courthouse News Service. The suit accuses Miller of lifting the track for his ...

The Pittsburgh MC Mac Miller is one of the most polarizing figures in rap music, selling reams of records to his college-age peers but loathed by many serious genre fans. Now he can add a new name to ...