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 ...

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty ...

The upcoming season will celebrate the 30th anniversary of key Memphis rap albums released in 1995. These include titles from internationally recognized artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8Ball & MJG ...

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

Bruce Springsteen experiments with loops, synthesizers and the rhythms of mid-1990s hip-hop on “Blind Spot,” the second song to emerge from his long-awaited collection of unreleased music ...

In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the ... While used more sparingly in the ’90s and 2000s, the beat flip really took off in the 2010s. No, Drake didn’t pioneer ...

Imyounik, the Dallas-born rapper shaking up hip-hop’s status quo ... Raised in Dallas, Texas, Imyounik has been writing music since the age of 10. But don’t mistake her for your average ...

Soul in the Horn caught my eye, and my earbuds, at a time when the idea of going out and let alone dancing was all but canceled. During the pandemic, I routinely caught DJ Natasha Diggs on her ...

Bruce Springsteen announced he would be unearthing seven previously unreleased albums in a box set titled Tracks II: The Lost ...

For fans of Mid-Atlantic street music, a word that’s growing in notoriety is bip. As he caught more ears in underground rap ...