XXL: You got your start professional in music in the mid-1970s, correct? Steve Arrington: Professionally, yes. Kind of in high school, but yeah I'd say that. When did you first start hearing hip-hop?

Steve Arrington has attainted a position of righteous funk royalty. Having risen to prominence with the band Slave in the late-’70s, he then flew the roost to form the humbly-monikered Steve Arrington ...

Last month, MTV Games announced that Snoop Dogg would become the first non-Beastie Boy rapper to appear in Rock Band. Today, the publisher revealed that three of hip-hop's most-sampled funk acts will ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Funk music artists with ties to Dayton have connections to thousands of songs, leaving behind a proud history of funk music in the city. Dayton is known as the funk capital of ...

Dayton may not be the birthplace of hip hop, but we sure helped make it funky. Google celebrated the 44th anniversary of the hip hop movement on Aug. 11, 2017. To put it funky, hip hop would be a lot ...