National DJ Day: A Shout-Out To The Talent Behind the Turntables

DJs used turntables to create innovative tools which established community bonds and economic power across regions and ...
Rolling Out

Modern hip-hop’s nostalgic sound taps into classic samples

In the ever-evolving landscape of music, nostalgia plays a significant role in shaping contemporary sounds. As we dive into 2024, it’s clear that many artists are channeling the past, breathing new ...
Essence

Cipha Sounds On The Power Of Hip Hop: “It Made Me Who I Am."

Tonight, the new series Hip Hop Treasures, which follows the search for lost Hip Hop memorabilia, premieres on A&E. Led by LL COOL J and Ice T alongside collectors and museum curators, they will tell ...
Uproxx

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

Doja returned to her roots on her latest release, delving back into the classic hip-hop sounds that first informed her style. It works, unless you expected more “Say So” or “Kiss Me More” style ...
The Grio

Outkast changed the sound of hip-hop — now they’re headed to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Over the weekend, it was announced that Outkast, along with Chubby ...
Mixmag

Hip hop most downloaded genre on Splice for third year in a row

Hip hop was the most downloaded genre on sample library Splice in 2025, for the third year in a row. The findings were ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Hip-hop’s geography lessons: As it grew, different places made its sounds local

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Nothing shows off hip-hop’s ability to change and adapt, to be reinvented again and again, more than the different sounds that have come out over the decades as it spread around the ...
Spin

The Top 50 Hip-Hop Singles Of The 1980s

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...