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 ...

Something interesting is happening in the “Progressive R&B” category at this year’s Grammy Awards. Four of the six nominated albums contain songs that bear the unmistakable rhythmic signature of a ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

Everyone’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) just got its first-ever hip hop mixtape, featuring some of the biggest hits in hip hop from the early ’90s until today. The Hip Hop ...

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary. Producers are just as (if not more) important than MCs on a track. As much as fans care ...

After nearly 30 years and much debate, Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Pt. II" has officially been named the greatest hip-hop beat of all time. After nearly 30 years and much debate, Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones ...

Producer: A-Trak Album: N/A Label: Fools Gold Fool's Gold head honcho A-Trak recently wrote a candid editorial about how rap's preoccupation with drugs worries him as a non-user, but his reservations ...

In a musical world that for many years has been shaped by fixed stereotypes and social constraints, Sudanese female rappers ...

Nas revealed plans for a Broadway adaptation of the 1984 Hip-Hop classic “Beat Street” at the Tribeca Film Festival’s 40th-anniversary screening. Nas has announced the classic 1984 Hip-Hop film Beat ...

Forty years later, hip-hop is just youth music, with all of its signifiers and stylings and subgenres translated and remixed around the world. But how do we pass down that creation myth? The way we so ...