While Hip-Hop remains his primary focus, Aasis Beats has demonstrated a broad stylistic range by producing hits in the ...
Loud Sound Studios is home to two of Rwanda's up-and-coming hip-hop acts: Pro-Zed and Kenny K-Shot. Hip-hop is all about the beats and the flow. For two Rwandan artists, that flow sometimes comes in ...
On Tuesday (May 14), K-Dot came through with another accomplishment to add to his resume. "Not Like Us," his diss track aimed at Drake, broke another record by surpassing 100 million streams on ...
The best rap beats are nerdy as hell. Every drum placement, every melody, every chopped-up sample sends me down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to piece together the way a producer contorts and dissects ...
Producers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of house and hip-hop. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images There was a time when artists ...
Beat Saber is a VR music rhythm game developed by Beat Games. Players can now access the Hip Hop Mixtape Music Pack fitted with 9 iconic tracks from 50 years of Hip Hop. Ranging from Pop Smoke, Nicki ...
Hip-hop producers live in uncertainty. Flipping samples, breaking rules, and trusting instinct is part of the job. That same skill set carries into betting, investing, and startups, where reading ...
Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After ...
Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...
HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “ Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists ...