On Tuesday, June 22, Swizz Beatz, Timbaland and D-Nice were honored with the prestigious ASCAP Voice of the Culture Award at the 2021 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards. Born Derrick Jones, D-Nice was ...

Derrick Jones, known to the world as D-Nice, started his career as an emcee in the burgeoning hip-hop collective, Boogie Down Productions, which was fronted by Lawrence “Kris” Parker, also known as ...

The New York native set Instagram ablaze with nine hours of classic and current hip hop, R&B, and pop tunes as his followers tuned in. Nice has been in the hip hop and disc jockeying industry for over ...

Just call him D-Nice. On Saturday, the legendary rapper-turned-DJ D-Nice set the internet on fire when his quarantine dance party went viral. Social-distancing during the coronavirus crisis was made a ...

Hip-hop pioneer D-Nice’s Home School DJ set — aka “Club Quarantine” — is now available as a mega-sized playlist on Spotify, courtesy of the man himself. Although his work within the genre had already ...

The acclaimed DJ-producer will bring his online Club Quarantine show to the Kennedy Center for a three-night night residency filled with comedy, R&B and hip-hop, and gospel. In 2020, when COVID-19 ...

Legendary DJ D-Nice is determined to bring a dance party to everybody at home. D-Nice (a.k.a. Derrick Jones) is hosting a daily event that he calls "Homeschool at Club Quarantine." On Sunday, more ...

When DJ D-Nice saw former first lady Michelle Obama virtually join his "Club Quarantine" Instagram Live session during the pandemic, he knew it was something big. "When (Obama) popped in to support ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When DJ D-Nice decided to start playing music live on Instagram amid countless closures due the worldwide pandemic, he did it in part to ease his loneliness and boredom given his own ...

Derrick “D-Nice” Jones was on the verge of retiring from DJ’ing for good when fate — and a global pandemic — shifted his plans. On March 16, 2020, just days after COVID-19 effectively took hold in the ...

For lovers of American music, Wednesday will be a day to cherish. On that day in 1950, Stevland Hardaway Morris was born in Saginaw, Mich. Six weeks premature, the baby was afflicted with retrolental ...

In 2020, when COVID-19 shut the world down, and society’s outlook was dire, one man stepped up. This unexpected hero gave the people hope, serenity, and positive energy. That hero was Derrick “D-Nice” ...