For at least a decade now, rap beats have been getting fiercer every year. The biggest producers in the genre largely abandoned traditional acoustic instrumentation, instead embracing the abrasive ...

RZA engineered Wu-Tang Clan’s sound from the beginning producing nearly every album and record, including classics like the group’s debut and Raekwon’s Only Built For Cuban Linx…. But when the ...

These iconic hip-hop tracks feature melodic pop hooks, in what Wyclef Jean once called a "Beauty and the Beast" approach to songwriting.

A look at hip-hop’s transformative impact in honor of its 50th anniversary. Hip-hop was once narrowly thought of as a trend in music that would ultimately fizzle out. Now, at its 50th anniversary, hip ...

Hip-hop was born in the break — that moment when a song’s vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. At the hands of the DJs, that break moment became more: a composition in ...

Earlier this month, when the New Yorker profiled Paul Tollett, the CEO of Goldenvoice and the man responsible for the industry-unto-itself that is Coachella, it made a point to acknowledge that ...