If you could be sure of anything in this world, it was that Funkmaster Flex would be on Hot 97, dropping “bombs” and new music, just as he has for decades. Now that long tenure is over. At least ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Feb. 11, 1997: Legendary Hot 97 radio personality Funkmaster Flex aka Funk Flex took the mixtape game to a new level by making mixtapes a ...

Given the single-hungry, compilation-friendly, attention-span-impaired climate of popular music, it's not surprising that mix-tape-style compilations from notable DJs are bigger and more popular than ...

If you have any Gen X or Millennial friends who grew up listening to hip-hop, you might want to check on them this weekend. That’s because legendary DJ Funkmaster Flex just dropped a bomb that shook ...

Fans thing Funkmaster Flex is retiring, but they probably have it all wrong. So why are people acting like the king of bomb drops just announced his own funeral? “He was a good ol wily DJ!” Folks are ...