Fresh off a breakout year, El Pablo is starting 2025 strong with a new single in “Party” featuring vocalist Kaye. As you’ll hear below, this feel-good drum & bass track showcases everything that makes ...

Since the ‘90s, the bass guitar has played an ever-increasing role in hip-hop – from the rubbery grooves of Raphael Saadiq and Pino Palladino to the dirt-fisted funk of Leonard ‘Hub’ Hubbard and ...

Chainz & Alchemist to perform on “The Tonight Show” Hip-hop fans are in for a treat as Larry June, 2 Chainz, and The ...

On this day in 2006, the hip-hop world suffered an irreplaceable loss as James Dewitt Yancey—better known as J Dilla—passed away at the age of 32. The visionary Detroit producer lost his battle with ...

On a special episode of Hard Knock Radio, I had the honor of sitting down with Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey, the mother of legendary producer James “J Dilla” Yancey, in celebration of J Dilla Day. With ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

IVE embarks on a new journey with their 3rd EP 'IVE EMPATHY', expanding their musical themes to embrace empathy. The album ...

The roots of hip-hop and house music both lie in the seismic ... The track showed how electronic instruments such as the synthesizer and drum machine could recast traditional rhythmic patterns into ...

Hip-Hop has evolved tremendously in its 50 years of existence. Technology is one of the main factors that help the art form move forward.

Good Luck, Babe! is superficially conventional in its form, groove and production. But it has enough twists and quirks to ...

A brilliant, brooding bass riff from the Bristolian trip-hop kings. The group aren't short of songs that ... There's plenty of weight, too, with complex drum patterns in the top end, so the bass ...

“You’re Blind” is a smoother example of the trio’s fusion prowess. How the soaring guitar melodies interact with the then-modern Hip-hop drums exemplifies King of Rock’s all-encompassing sentiment. To ...