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 ...

British Hip Hop artist Chairman Maf is Sheffield based and recently released his latest album ZOO without the aid of any music labels, when the community came together to help him in today’s DIY world ...

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J. Brookinz doesn't want beat makers to be anonymous. Sure, hip-hop fame and glory goes to rappers. But Brookinz is an evangelist for beat makers, who put together the music heard on hip-hop songs. On ...

Beat Making Lab is a project where where music artists (producers and emcees) travel around the world teaching young people to make hip hop and electronic beats. It's run by Pierce Freelon and Stephen ...

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 ...

Hip-hop was born back in the early 1970s, around the same time college students were graduating with new majors in Feminist Studies, Environmental Studies and Black Studies. Initially seen by much of ...

Producer: A-Trak Album: N/A Label: Fools Gold Fool's Gold head honcho A-Trak recently wrote a candid editorial about how rap's preoccupation with drugs worries him as a non-user, but his reservations ...