The BET Cyphers at the Hip Hop Awards is one of the must-see segments of the annual event. Artists from across the industry go bar-for-bar on some of the most legendary instrumentals in hip hop music.

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

Now, Drake is offering other artists the chance to show off their own abilities over his instrumentals. He took to Instagram to announce that versions of the songs with no vocals were coming out soon ...

Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre during 1993 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic) Link Copied to Clipboard! Spotify has released it list for the 50 ...

Hip-hop has always been quick to turn new technology into something creative. The turntable became an instrument. Drum machines helped define entire eras. Sampling gave producers a way to take ...

As the legendary DJ Premiere once said, “Hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different. And to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.” Rap music ...

Spotify has released their list of the 50 greatest Hip-Hop beats of all time, in celebration of the upcoming 50th year anniversary of the genre (August 11). This kind of a list is always hard to do as ...

Hey, young world. Here's a story about one measure of the distance hip-hop has traveled in its 50 years. Once upon a time, not long ago, to paraphrase a great rap storyteller, an 11-year-old in Queens ...