Imagine having the power to sound like your favorite hip-hop artist, even if you’re not a professional rapper or singer. Well, YouTube has made that a reality with its groundbreaking AI tool ...

Hip-Hop artists are retooling and developing AI to create new sounds and workflows. In this episode, we meet independent artist Vritra, former member of Hip-Hop collective Odd Future, as he tests ...

Hip-hop’s future may be digital, but its roots remain human. From AI-generated beats to cloned voices and machine-assisted lyrics, artists are rewriting the rules — and reshaping independence.

Priddy Ugly has been named the country's most successful hip hop artist of 2025. AI chatbot, Grok, noted the rapper's achievements among his peers.

Hip-hop is not an industry for all-out Luddites. But there's something to be said of how the ways in which technology factors into the creation and dissemination of this art form have always been ...

Timbaland recently used hip-hop artist K Fresh's beat to train his artificial intelligence music platform, Suno — but without ...

Hip-hop has always been on the cutting edge when it comes to technological innovation — with creators constantly devising new ways to make their art and share it with the masses.

When Capitol Records announced that they had signed their first-ever AI Hip Hop artist in mid-August, it seemed like the natural next step in the industry’s integration into the Metaverse ...

And yet, in these tools, in the tool that I was using I was so limited in the ways that I could speak about the world. It kept reflecting the tired ideas about hip hop as uniquely perverse or uniquely ...

While Timbo's artist isn't a rapper, his influence in the music culture could inspire the next AI hip-hop artist. But we had an AI rapper, and it failed miserably.

Hip-hop is widely recognized as beginning in 1973 in The Bronx, New York. One party played an enormous role in its origin sotry: DJ Kool Herc, the stage name for 18-year-old Clive Campbell, spun ...