Akai MPC Series: The MPC series has long been favored by hip-hop producers for its intuitive workflow and sample-based capabilities. These machines allow you to program drum patterns, chop samples ...

House music being celebrated in new songs from big-time acts like Drake and Beyoncé has turned into a huge conversation as of late, but the fast-paced, drum ... hip-hop songs with house music ...

That last genre—hip-hop—is our focus on this funky trip ... Some producers stuck to one sample and added drums, but others were far more ambitious, melding together a range of sounds to ...

But the tough drums, powerful vocals and scattergun rhythms should come together in a glorious cacophony... provided your system is on its game. If, when you think of hip-hop, you think of DJs ...

The song uses the same breakbeat — a drum break from a record put ... I think it's the same thing for hip-hop. It's just that the samples are sort of that structure," Shaw told Insider.

It wasn't until Coleman's drum solo appeared in the early hip hop compilation album "Ultimate ... a website that catalogs samples based on user contributions. But despite the break's widespread ...

CL Smooth’s ode to family and his recently deceased friend Trouble T Roy works perfectly over Pete Rock’s evocative use of jazz samples and hip-hop drums. Dante Ross, the legendary A&R man and ...

From drum machines and digital samplers to modified turntables, hip-hop artists took relatively new musical tools of the time and repurposed them in ways that have come to define not just the ...

But obviously, hip-hop has changed a lot in the decades since. Where once, all you needed was a four-track drum machine and a ... producers have a wide array of samples to choose from, pulling ...

Although hip-hop and R&B are always ... the Winans’ credit for its sample on the standout track, “Creepin,’” by Metro Boomin and The Weekend, but those drums came from EPMD.

From speaking with Hip Hop producers and those close to Clyde, this series uncovers the story of the drummer who created this defining sample, but was never properly credited. In this music ...