When most people think of samples in Hip-hop, they think of classic soul and funk records. A beautifully haunting vocal sample from a singer lost in the ...

Hip-hop has existed for over 50 years, and since its inception, the genre has mastered the art of sampling to create some of the most iconic records in music history. Effectively using a sample ...

Artists such as Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye have been sampled on many of the dopest songs in hip-hop and R&B. Although hip-hop and R&B are always evolving, one thing will always be ...

Sampling originated from DJ Kool Herc's Merry-Go-Round technique. Over time, the technique evolved and has created hip-hop songs with ties that go back decades. The legal battles with clearing samples ...

The longtime Fugees affiliate was celebrated by Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill after his death at 50. Since the last one blew up, here’s one you probably didn’t know 👀 #rayymonbeatz #michaeljackson ...

It was a frivolous ranking but was also intended as an appreciation of Prince's extraordinary vocal exertions, and it caught the attention of fans. After Prince's recent death, the piece began ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...

At various points in my previous articles, I have at least pointed to the fact that I, having been born in the 2000s, had to learn about hip-hop out of order, at least compared to those who had been ...