Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one of the most talked-about moments of the 2025 American Music Awards, Eminem emerged victorious in two of the show’s biggest ...

Spotify’s RapCaviar has newly released their 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Beats of All Time, naming Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s 1999 collaboration “Still D.R.E.” at No. 1. The JAY-Z written song appeared on Dre’s ...

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 ...

Some of rap’s biggest songs almost ended up in entirely different hands. Producers often shop beats around, but whether due to timing, personal taste, or fate, some artists pass on tracks that later ...

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary. Producers are just as (if not more) important than MCs on a track. As much as fans care ...

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 ...

You could argue that today’s music fans are spoiled beyond previous generations’ wildest imaginations. Back in the Nineties and even the early 2000s, the level of insight audiences had into their ...

In terms of artistic advancement, many rap fans would probably not consider Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” a genre-shifting single. However, regarding popular appeal, they probably would, as it was the ...

The DK Rap, the original beat that was bananas, continues to live on culturally almost 25 years later--for better or worse. Seth Rogen, who voices Donkey Kong in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, laughed ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...