The beats are meticulous, but subtly layered with spatial variety ... Despite changing up his sound from album to album and ...

J Dilla is responsible for some of the best beats to ever come out of hip-hop. His death, on February 10, 2006, robbed the world of a talent it was only just beginning to comprehend. Just 32 when ...

Over the instrumental for Mobb ... freestyled for an hour over a swath of beats from Eminem’s catalog. The bittersweet clip ...

when Kool Herc played the instrumental sections, his friend Coke La Rock hyped up the crowd over the top of the beats, becoming the first hip-hop MC. Lyor Cohen says that after a lot of their ...

His classic stuttering and loose beats that notoriously did not use quantization technology were nowhere to be found on his last project. To top it all off, the instrumental hip-hop album opens with ...

By utilizing two turntables and looping the instrumentals ... a massive decline in the number of samples used to create hip-hop beats, due mainly to the increased cost of licensing those samples.

In 1996, at a high school in the northern suburbs of Perth, two hip hop obsessed students decided to put pen to ... The totality of this group, ultimately, comes down to our love for beats and rhymes.

For the first time since 2011, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are back on the Billboard radio charts together as "Gorgeous," with Jhene Aiko, debuts.