Since Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA started chopping up samples and making hip-hop beats on a drum machine nearly 40 years ago, he’s been pulling inspiration from a variety of musical genres and mediums, ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Lexa Gates and Dajah Dorn. Between Megan Thee Stallion‘s “Hiss” and Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar‘s “Like That,” hip-hop ...

As for the music itself, well, country's sounding a lot like hip-hop too. You've got trap beats. 808 kick drums. Rap-like rhythms. Even beatboxing. So, why is Nashville borrowing so heavily from ...

Hip-hop originated in the Bronx ... a platform to have their voices heard. The beat was almost always in 4/4 time, and the music often included drum machines and synthesizers.