The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Lola Brooke, Lil Baby, and Quavo. While it’s not the busiest week, there’s plenty to get into for fans of pretty much every kind ...

with a hip hop background, it kind of blows their mind. It can be triggering for some people because it may feel like, hey, those who don't look like me are doing my music. But I think that that's ...

Several of the most lauded hip-hop songs in music history have achieved diamond status—10 million sold or more—according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). For these ...

Whether it's a subtle background loop or the focal point of a track, samples are crucial for creativity, storytelling, and ...

That last genre—hip-hop—is our focus on this funky trip down ... interview where James Mtume dismissed sampling as “Memorex music” and accused producers of glorifying mediocrity.

A synth or guitar is always prickling in the background, casting a putrid haze ... It’s an assertion of Carti’s eminence in popular music, as attested by the album’s features by hip-hop’s reigning ...

It didn’t take long for hip-hop to begin influencing mainstream music. Before Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five even had a chance to release the seminal song “The Message” in 1982 ...