Women’s History Month is a chance to celebrate women’s cultural, artistic, and societal contributions across all spectrums of society. While flowers have been (rightfully) given to today’s female ...
One thing is constant in the world of music: evolution. It’s a constantly evolving landscape where genres intersect, blend, and inspire one another. The influence of classic rock songs on hip-hop is a ...
Sampling has been an integral part of hip-hop for decades. It's one of the genre's main foundations. When a producer uses a portion of an already existing song for a new record, the sample turns the ...
The man with the deep voice and dope shades has found his work reworked onto some of the dopest cuts in Hip-Hop history. “Walk On By” alone is responsible for Biggie’s “Warning,” Tupac’s “Me Against ...
The world has come to stand and acknowledge the 50-year mark of the assassination of a man who is defined as being the most influential civil rights leader in American history, Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Hip-hop and our scene might seem like total opposites on the surface, but the genres collide more than you think. There’s the entire genre of emo rap that has been blowing up in recent years, as well ...
As we continue to celebrate hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, here’s how A Tribe Called Quest helped me appreciate one of the most important aspects of the genre. As a Queens native, my 15-year-old self was ...
Hip-hop was born with a sample. Herc's music would fade, but his technique was indelible. Other DJs found their own seven or 15 second samples and continued building beats off them. As the genre took ...
Ahmad Jamal, whose music was sampled by Nas, Jay-Z, De La Soul and many other Hip-Hop artists, died at the age of 92. The influential pianist, who was born Frederick Russell Jones, died of ...
Public Enemy sampled David Bowie’s classic “Fame” from the 1975 album Young Americans in the song “Night Of The Living Baseheads”. This standout track from the 1988 album It Takes A Nation OF Millions ...
Jackson's contribution to the world of hip-hop began decades before Lavell Crump hit mainstream success with "Like a Pimp," as David Banner in 2003, who is the only rapper inducted into the ...