It’s debatable who came up with the term “turntablism” — it could have been Daly City’s DJ Disk, or the more widely credited DJ Babu, from Los Angeles. But everyone can agree that the term ...

Got a lot to share witchas this week. Memes converging when our favorite hip-hop podcast, The Cipher, hosted OG hip-hop journalist/critic, Oliver “O-Dub” Wang, to talk about his new book, Legions of ...

A diamond of turntable precision is tucked into a Glendale, California, brick-and-mortar DJ school, the Beat Junkie Institute of Sound, co-founded and co-operated by Los Angeles’s next-level-talented ...

As the ashes smoldered from the riots of 1992, L.A.'s hip-hop scene reimagined the next quarter-century of sound. In what remains one of the most important years in Angeleno music history, Dr. Dre's ...

ack in the ’90s, a free, photocopied hip-hop zine from San Francisco gave rise to a record label that helped further one of the culture’s central elements worldwide. The Bomb’s creator, DJ Dave Paul, ...

Sometimes the biggest dogs in OC hip-hop aren't the ones with the loudest bark. Two decades after moving from Hawaii to OC, DJ Great Daine's become the quiet master behind the turntables during his ...

As one of the finest DJs alive, Rob Swift has repped turntablism far and wide. He's won DJ contests, starred in the all-DJ supergroup X-ecutioners and even the odd GAP commercial, all while releasing ...

These Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Hip Hop legends shaped history, from DJ Qbert to Tyga. Explore their impact and legacy on REVOLT.