Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

Loud Sound Studios is home to two of Rwanda's up-and-coming hip-hop acts: Pro-Zed and Kenny K-Shot. Hip-hop is all about the beats and the flow. For two Rwandan artists, that flow sometimes comes in ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “ Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists ...

The producer Kenny Beats has noticed some strange phenomena at his shows over the past few years. For one, the crowds have gotten noticeably bigger, as have merch sales and streams. But most notably, ...

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s Shadstackzz isn’t rapping at full force are when the beats switch from one ...

The best rap beats are nerdy as hell. Every drum placement, every melody, every chopped-up sample sends me down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to piece together the way a producer contorts and dissects ...

Beat Saber is a VR music rhythm game developed by Beat Games. Players can now access the Hip Hop Mixtape Music Pack fitted with 9 iconic tracks from 50 years of Hip Hop. Ranging from Pop Smoke, Nicki ...

Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

“I feel like a lot of business owners talk about community, but I don’t think they even know what community is. It’s just the trend where they’re like, ‘We have to say this, because it’s going to make ...

As a part of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's new community partner-focused concert series, Sound Waves, the KSO is working with local artists to bring a fusion of Hip Hop and classical music to ...