Trunk Boiz' epic return, Larry June's smooth cruising, an Avengers-style rap supergroup: Local hip-hop remains unstoppable ...

Jay-Z dropped The Blueprint on 9/11 and showed us every version of Hov — battle rapper, businessman, son, superstar. Hip-hop ...

For this week’s Golden Age Thursday, we’re changing the structure to spotlight an artist who changed how the world perceived ...

Future has never relied heavily on obvious samples, but The Real Me quietly weaves together influences from classic country, progressive rock, horror cinema, spoken word, and contemporary electronic ...

View post: 1968 Charles Bronson Western, Initially a Flop, Gave Hollywood Hero His Darkest Role One of the coolest aspects of music is seeing the work of one artist be sampled or repurposed by another ...

Hip-Hop and RnB are genres that have such a deep history of sampling, whether that be deep cuts or successful songs in their own right, the likes of artists like Tupac and Rihanna, it has given us ...

Sampling has been part of the genre since the beginning. The rapper Busta Rhymes names the songs that artists keep turning to. By Mitchell Kuga Roy Hammond, the lead singer of the Honey Drippers.

Arabic samples have quietly reshaped hip-hop’s emotional vocabulary for artists like From Clipse, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Timbaland. Long before shisha bars became a lifestyle signifier in the West, ...

To elucidate the multiscale mechanisms governing performance formation in high–reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) mixtures, this study integrates macro-, meso-, and microscale analyses into a unified ...

J. Cole samples Ludacris’ “What’s Your Fantasy” on The Fall-Off, reworking the classic sound on “Bombs in the Ville/Hit the Gas.” The sample’s appearance on The Fall-Off also reinforces the album’s ...