For about 15 years, Uriel Rincon told authorities he didn't recognize the gunman who he saw kill Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay in the rap star's recording studio.

But on Wednesday, Rincon — who was himself wounded in the gunfire — pointed across a courtroom and identified Karl Jordan Jr. as the shooter in one of world's most infamous killings in hip-hop history.

“He kind of walked directly to Jay and gave — like, half a handshake, with an arm. And at the same time, that's when I hear a couple of shots,” Rincon told jurors of Jordan.

Both Jordan and Ronald Washington, who's accused of being an accomplice, have pleaded not guilty.

Rincon said he was looking down at his ringing phone as the gunfire erupted, then looked up again.

“And then I see Jay just fall,” he said.

Then, Rincon said, he felt pain in his left leg and realized he'd been shot and that Jam Master Jay — the hip-hop luminary who'd hired him as a teenager to help around his studio and record label — was gravely wounded.

“I'm trying to tend to my wound, and at the same time, I'm trying to give Jay attention — asking him is he OK? Can he talk? Whatever — and he is just not responding,” Rincon testified.

He said that during the shooting, Washington was at the studio door, telling another witness to get on the ground and stay there.

Rincon was the first eyewitness to testify in the long-awaited trial, which comes over 22 years after the death of Jam Master Jay, born Jason Mizell. The DJ helped rap gain a wider audience through his role in Run-DMC, the 1980s powerhouse group that notched the genre's first gold and platinum albums.

Jordan, who was Mizell’s godson, and Washington, a childhood friend of the DJ, were arrested in 2020. Prosecutors say the two had been planning a cocaine deal with the rap star and killed him because they were about to get cut out.

Washington’s lawyers have said authorities had no clue who killed Mizell and that they brought a case held together only with “tape and glue.”

Jordan’s attorneys have said he was at his then-girlfriend’s home at the time of the shooting. One of the lawyers, Mark DeMarco, emphasized while questioning Rincon Wednesday that the witness repeatedly told investigators for years that he hadn't quite seen and couldn't identify the gunman.

“I was confused and scared and not trusting a lot of things that were happening,” Rincon said, explaining that he'd struggled to fathom what had happened.

“I didn't understand what I saw, and I didn't understand why or who — because, again, it was somebody I knew. So that's why it was hard for me to grasp,” he said.

He finally named Jordan and Washington to authorities around 2017.

When asked why he finally did so, Rincon said he thought of Mizell’s surviving family.

“I felt that his wife and his children needed closure, and I felt that they should know what took place,” he said.

The trial opened Monday, and on Tuesday, Brooklyn Federal Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall ruled that Jordan's rap lyrics — which include first-person accounts of violence and drug dealing — can't be used against him at trial, as prosecutors sought.

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It’s officially Hot Girl Summer now that Megan Thee Stallion is embarking on the tour for the 2019 anthem that catapulted her to stardom.

The 28-year-old rapper announced the tour on “Good Morning America” this week, as well as having her third album in the works, following 2022’s “Traumatize.”

“The Hot Girl Summer tour is gonna be 2024 summertime. I feel like I’ve never been able to be outside doing my own thing during the summer, since like 2019, so this is gonna be the first time I drop an album on time for the summer,” said the “Savage” artist. “I do want to give the hotties the Megan Thee Stallion experience.”

It’s unclear when or where the tour will kick off.

The news comes on the heels of the Grammy Award winner appearing as herself in the new “Mean Girls” musical — the big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, which was itself the stage take on the 2004 hit film.

The rapper also collaborated with Renée Rapp, who stars as this era’s Regina George, on one of the soundtrack’s entries, “Not My Fault.”

Back in September, the “Big Mouth” actress also made headlines as Tory Lanez was sentenced to a decade behind bars for shooting her in 2020.

“For the past couple years, music just seemed so negative to me,” the “Cobra” rapper told “GMA,” noting that she “wasn’t in a good space mentally after everything that had happened to me, and it just all felt like I’m tired of this, I’m tired of fighting.”

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Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name — and according to Ted Danson, “Cheers” fans might soon get the chance to do just that.

The Emmy winner, 76, told Entertainment Tonight this week that while the cast of the beloved sitcom would be hard-pressed to embark on an onscreen project, they’re open to some sort of reunion.

“Well you know it’s interesting… I’ve seen them recently, everybody, pretty much everybody,” Danson told the outlet while walking the red carpet for the premiere of the finale season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” hitting HBO Sunday.

Earlier this month, Danson was joined onstage by “Cheers” co-stars Rhea Perlman, Kelsey Grammer, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt at the 75th Primetime Emmys, where the casts of iconic television series reunited to celebrate the format.

Though Danson noted having a “bunch of older folks” in differing frames of mind wouldn’t work for a new project, he said that the Emmys reunion “was really fun,” even without cast mates Shelley Long and Woody Harrelson.

“I’m sorry Shelley [wasn’t there] and Woody was off doing a play [‘Ulster American’] in London — which I saw and he was amazing,” said Danson. “But [the reunion] was lovely.”

“Cheers” aired on NBC for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993, during which time Danson — who starred as Boston Red Sox player-turned-Cheers owner Sam Malone — won two of the 10 Emmys for which he was nominated.

From combined wire services