CLEVELAND, Ohio – Look what hip-hop has become in the 21 st century. For a while there was just East Coast and West Coast rap with Southern hip-hop creeping into the mainstream. After the start of the ...

Hip-hop at it's core is lyrics on a beat, with both being vital for the final product. Throughout the genre's history, there have been some truly incredible beats that turned producers into stars, and ...

Ten years after his run helped define a generation’s summer, Fetty Wap returns with Zavier, a more reflective, evolved sound and a chance to tap back into something people have been wanting to feel ...

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 ...

This week’s new music Friday also features Chief Keef, Ne-Yo, Stove God Cooks and Westside Gunn. 21 hours ago In 2001, Just Blaze, the producer of “Song Cry,” made a soul sample. In 2020, ...

Raj Smoove grew up surrounded by great New Orleans musicians. His father, Roger Dickerson Sr., is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated pianist and now retired educator who introduced his son to Allen and Reggie ...

Style may be cyclical, but nostalgia is powerful too. Certain '90s trends come back not just because of what's on the runways, but also because kids always look towards the past for fashionable ...

In the early ’90s, hip-hop wasn’t the mainstream cultural behemoth it is today. Back then, hip-hop was still largely a non-commercial art form found in Black and brown communities in cities across the ...

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the ...