As a member of the Brooklyn rap group UTFO, Kangol Kid helped craft one of hip-hop’s earliest viral hits, “Roxanne, Roxanne,” a self-deprecating jam about a fictional woman — “she’s an apple, a pear, ...

Brooklyn-born rapper Kangol Kid, an influential artist behind one of the biggest hip-hop songs of all time, died Saturday at age 55. The performer, who was part of the famed hip-hop group UTFO, had ...

Pioneering Hip-Hop group UTFO has reunited and will release new album next year, according to group members. The group, which was formed in 1983, is best known for its classic Hip-Hop record "Roxanne, ...

Kangol Kid, the rapper and breakdancer who founded the old-school hip-hop group UTFO, has died after being diagnosed with stage four colon cancer earlier this year, HipHopDX reports. He was 55. Born ...