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 ...

Benjamin Booker entered a new sonic world when he tapped LA-based, “producer’s producer” Kenny Segal to work on LOWER, his ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

My initial strategy in writing this kind of music was to use only classical compositional techniques and acoustic instruments to re-create hip-hop beats. However, what ended up happening was ...

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 ...