Hip-hop at it's core is lyrics on a beat, with both being vital for the final product. Throughout the genre's history, there have been some truly incredible beats that turned producers into stars, and ...

A great beat is a game changer. Period. Let’s just keep it a buck: Beats and melodies have outweighed lyrics in the eyes of most for a while and with attention spans becoming shorter and shorter, it ...

Peel back the production layers used to make hip-hop and drum & bass and you'll find a common strand of DNA: samples. When jungle emerged in early 1990s England, the music borrowed from dub and ...