Some songs are more than just hits—they become the foundation of future music. Over the decades, certain tracks have been ...

Producers can blend the past and present to create new sounds, whether with a drum break ... While there are several classic hip-hop samples you need to know, other music genres have also recently ...

In rap, it’s often hard to figure out where a sample comes from. Thankfully ... Bronson’s producer The Alchemist uses the Polish vocals and the drums from the song Pieśń Niepokorna (Defiant Song) by ...

West Coast hip-hop drew heavily on funk samples, with its own subgenre, “G-funk,” that emphasized slick drums and in particular a high-pitched, whiny synthesizer that can be heard on ...

That six second sample has been used in, I'll be comfortable in saying, thousands and thousands of recordings.” The drum break, often with altered speed or pitch, was first used in hip-hop ...

Hip-hop is a slower style with snares on beats two and four, built around samples. This sound came from DJs repeating the drum breakdown or ‘break’ sections of funk records and later gave ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, legendary producer and sound architect DJ Premier was born in 1966. Over the decades, Premier has cemented himself as one of the most influential producers in the genre ...