Early rap music, like funk, has been split into countless subgenres, which often seem to be named by record collectors too young to have purchased the records when they first came out. The categories ...
If you go to YouTube and search for "Astounding Rapper Mac Lethal," you'll find a video of rapper Mac Lethal's 2014 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Watch the clip. First, Ellen shows Lethal's ...
Loud Sound Studios is home to two of Rwanda's up-and-coming hip-hop acts: Pro-Zed and Kenny K-Shot. Hip-hop is all about the beats and the flow. For two Rwandan artists, that flow sometimes comes in ...
Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After ...
A TikTok music producer turned "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" into an EDM-tinged rap beat. There's a whole scene of people using intentionally "goofy ahh" sounds in their music. The tune "Old MacDonald" ...