Discover the essential music instruments for creating captivating Hip Hop beats. Explore drum machines, synthesizers, and samplers, and learn valuable tips for choosing the right instrument to achieve ...

Drum kits, sound and drum samples can help you a lot in creating and maintaining your sound collection. Hip Hop Drum Samples. With a library of your own, music creation becomes a much easier and ...

When Dom Flemons was in the studio making his album Prospect Hill, the engineer made a casual comment that pushed the material in an unexpected direction. “Maybe you should sell some of those beats to ...

For a global phenomenon, U.S. hip-hop is still largely driven by regional differences in sound, cadence, and personality. Increasingly, the genre is not only being exported overseas but also blended ...

It’s a well-established fact that tuning into “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” turns the average person into a superhuman academic whose powers of concentration are rivaled only by ...

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary. Producers are just as (if not more) important than MCs on a track. As much as fans care ...

Producers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of house and hip-hop. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images There was a time when artists ...

During the late '80s and early parts of the '90s, R&B was dominated by the new jack swing era, with artists such as Janet Jackson, New Edition and Boyz II Men being some of the subgenre's most ...

Spokane, Wash., musician James Pants is known as a crack DJ and obscure electro freak, if you know him at all — he’s more an influence than a household name. He’s also a helluva hip-hop producer, the ...