Southern hip-hop’s influence continues shaping modern music through strategic sampling, with artists like Future, GloRilla and Sexyy Red drawing from classic Southern tracks. Recently, Juicy J noted ...

At various points in my previous articles, I have at least pointed to the fact that I, having been born in the 2000s, had to learn about hip-hop out of order, at least compared to those who had been ...

Nina simone’s influence on hip hop is bigger than most people realize. Her emotional delivery, protest themes, and powerful ...

Ghostface Killah (photo: Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images) and David Axelrod (photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) “Car Key,” the fourth song on the Difference Machine’s 2022 album, Unmasking the ...

World Cafe correspondent John Morrison joins us to talk about why the East Coast rap group Main Source deserves a spot as one ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

In its themes, “Nubian Nut” taps into the politics, philosophy, history and identity that were central to the music of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian artist, Afrobeat founder and political activist whose ...

Scott described Deadbeat as “the best album to come out in the last 2 years” on his Instagram Story shortly after its release on Oct. 17; it debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 this week (chart ...

Hip-hop producers live in uncertainty. Flipping samples, breaking rules, and trusting instinct is part of the job. That same skill set carries into betting, investing, and startups, where reading ...

“The most sampled hip-hop artist in history” is coming to the New York State Fair for the first time. Slick Rick will perform at the NYS Fair’s Suburban Park stage on Saturday, Aug. 26. It will be one ...