Logic is consumed by his love for nostalgia and YSIV is his personal and myopic monument to a bygone era. Across 14 tracks, the Maryland rapper is obsessed with the idea of "boom-bap”—a phrase he uses ...

On this day in 1993, Blastmaster KRS-One stepped out on his own and released his first solo album, Return of the Boom Bap, marking a powerful new chapter in the legacy of Boogie Down Productions.

Don’t push play on Doechii‘s new single “Boom Bap” expecting its content to match its title. Instead of employing a Pete Rock-esque, jazz-and-breakbeat-sampling instrumental and spitting cerebral ...

Hip hop beatmaking blends rhythm, sound design, and cultural roots into a unique creative process. From drum programming to melodic textures, producers use both tradition and technology to craft ...

Seattle Weekly: As Boom Bap Project, you, DJ Scene, and Destro have been around Seattle’s hip-hop scene for a few years, but your new album, Reprogram, is being released by Rhymesayers Entertainment, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Rising star and fan favorite Doechii will release Alligator Bites Never ...

DIIV just released their terrific fourth album Frog in Boiling Water (read our review) which pulls influence from all manner of early-’90s alt-rock and lands right as the current shoegaze revival is ...

Anderson Paak offers a mission statement early on his Malibu album, which hit shelves last Friday: “I bring you greetings from the first church of boom bap-tists.” Boom bap, a head-nodding subgenre of ...

Shiftee's unashamedly fun-loving label Hot Mom USA has been an ideal source of rap and club music over the past five years. Now, celebrating half a decade in the game, Shiftee's sharing the first EP ...

The wildly creative Florida singer and rapper Doechii signed with Top Dawg Entertainment a few years ago, and she scored a hit last year with the Trillville-interpolating Kodak Black collab "What It ...

Legend has it that the record which made James Yancey fall in love with hip-hop was Whodini’s 1984 “Big Mouth.” He would have been 10 years old when this minimalist Larry Smith production first ...

Seattle's Boom Bap Project belongs to the sizable contingent of underground hip-hop groups for whom the past is a shining ideal to aspire to, and current trends and fads are plagues to be avoided or ...