Freekey Zekey, born Ezekiel Giles, is a rapper known for his energetic style and strong presence in the hip-hop scene. He gained fame as a founding member of the popular rap group The Diplomats ...

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 ...

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen Siri do. Screengrab: Cult of Mac Okay, this is the best thing I’ve ever seen Siri do: multiply one trillion to the tenth power to lay down a hypnotic ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For many, hip-hop’s heyday was the so-called golden era of the late 80s to early 90s. The likes ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

BASS EXPO 2014: The rhythm section is very much the centrepiece for many genres of electronic music, but some of the greatest basslines since the dawn of groove-based, electronically enhanced music ...

In rock criticism, there are words that have simply been ruined by overuse; you just can’t get away with referring to a guitar riff as “angular” anymore. And as more and more writers—and bloggers, ...