The “Blade II” soundtrack features a pairing of hip-hop and electronica music artists on every track. The star-studded album features many critically acclaimed artists such as Ice Cube, Paul Oakenfold ...

As the legendary DJ Premiere once said, “Hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different. And to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.” Rap music ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

From Buc Fifty's 'Dead End Street' to Jadakiss' 'We Gonna Make It,' these are the 17 best Alchemist beats from his early ...

When it comes to rap and hip-hop, speed, precision, and lyricism are some of the most defining aspects of the art. The fastest rapper in the world represents the pinnacle of these qualities, pushing ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time this decade, three rap albums are nominated for Album of the Year at the 2026 Grammys. Here’s why hip-hop ...

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 ...