Southern hip-hop’s influence continues shaping modern music through strategic sampling, with artists like Future, GloRilla and Sexyy Red drawing from classic Southern tracks. Recently, Juicy J noted ...

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the ...

So, one of rap’s great blog era-to now — the rarely explicitly explained, but understood as member of rap’s unofficial, but ...

House music being celebrated in new songs from big-time acts like Drake and Beyoncé has turned into a huge conversation as of late, but the fast-paced, drum and hi-hat-riddled genre has always had a ...

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Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Drake’s new project, Honestly, Nevermind, created a collective gasp in ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahmad Jamal, the legendary and inventive pianist, passed away on Sunday at age 92. He was a virtuoso as an instrumentalist and ...

Ghostface Killah (photo: Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images) and David Axelrod (photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) “Car Key,” the fourth song on the Difference Machine’s 2022 album, Unmasking the ...

Seven albums. One culture. Infinite impact. An onslaught of Hip-Hop “Mount Rushmores ” has recently flooded social media and various internet spaces to continue the never-ending debate of “the best.” ...