There is always a lot of talk about who had the best Hip-hop debut album. There are plenty of examples, and there have been ...

Electronic artists utilize sampling all the time, but these three outfits really changed the game in terms of how samples are ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Lola Brooke, Lil Baby, and Quavo. While it’s not the busiest week, there’s plenty to get into for fans of pretty much every kind ...

Some producers stuck to one sample and added drums ... Fruit,” a funk track which has underpinned over 100 songs, particularly in hip-hop. Mtume might also be the first funk group ever ensnared ...

Chuck D is back in the solo spotlight. On April 18, 2025, the Public Enemy frontman dropped "New Gens," which is his first ...

The production across the album was steeped in that gritty, sample-driven boom bap synonymous with the era, led by beats from the likes of Pete Rock, Marley Marl, and Easy Mo Bee. The vibe was ...

Chicago rapper and mental health advocate Kaicrewsade builds tracks by connecting musicians and builds safe spaces by ...

Bruce Springsteen experiments with loops, synthesizers and the rhythms of mid-1990s hip-hop on 'Blind Spot,' the second song ...

The dynamic duo that still has a spot on many hip-hop lovers' Top Five list has a fascinating backstory that is just as much ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school's "first" hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might ...

While it may appear there is not a lot in common between the two artists musically, it’s no surprise The Edge reveals the respect U2 has for Kendrick Lamar with the similarity in being proponents of ...