The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from J. Cole, Rico Nasty, and Doechii.

Whether it's a subtle background loop or the focal point of a track, samples are crucial for creativity, storytelling, and innovation in music. They’re the backbone of hip-hop and have played a ...

Rather than simply a genre, hip-hop is a culture – one chiefly expressed and disseminated through rap music. That notion of “keeping it real” – has been at its core. As ever with popular ...

For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and ...

The 1990s is often referred to as the golden age of hip-hop. During that era, rap music gained more attention from mainstream audiences, regional music such as East Coast vs. West Coast was ...

The roots of hip-hop and house music both lie in the seismic shifts of the late 1970s, a period of sociopolitical unrest and electronic experimentation that redefined the possibilities of sound.