From gritty boom bap to 808-heavy trap, the art of hip hop production blends rhythm mastery, creative sampling, and precision mixing. Top producers reveal techniques for crafting drum patterns, ...

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary. Producers are just as (if not more) important than MCs on a track. As much as fans care ...

Hip-hop and R&B have traveled from the raw, message-driven beats of the '80s and '90s to today’s melodic, genre-blending sound. Artists like Blxst embody the modern wave—mixing rap and R&B with ...

Hip-hop and gaming have grown side by side, blending music, culture, and gameplay into everything from classic console titles ...

In the early ’90s, hip-hop wasn’t the mainstream cultural behemoth it is today. Back then, hip-hop was still largely a non-commercial art form found in Black and brown communities in cities across the ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

Once a week Kendall Larade and Ron Brown transform a shoebox-sized Phillips Hall basement classroom into a nightclub, ...

“Casablanca Beats” was reviewed by TheWrap out of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Director Nabil Ayouch’s “Casablanca Beats” wears its narrative trappings ever so lightly. If the film’s bookends prime ...

“I feel like a lot of business owners talk about community, but I don’t think they even know what community is. It’s just the trend where they’re like, ‘We have to say this, because it’s going to make ...

Artisan Beats, born Seo Jae-min and widely regarded as a trailblazer of Korean hip-hop, has died at the age of 47. A pivotal member of Bulhandang Crew and Da Crew, he helped shape the genre’s early ...