Apple music loop-maker Big Fish Audio has released two new GarageBand and Logic compatible loop collections — Club Hip Hop and Glitch Hop. According to the company, Club Hip Hop ($49.95) includes all ...

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th birthday. It started with a back-to-school party on August 11, 1973, in The Bronx. Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, improvised and played snippets in a loop on ...

For at least a decade now, rap beats have been getting fiercer every year. The biggest producers in the genre largely abandoned traditional acoustic instrumentation, instead embracing the abrasive ...

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 ...

The rapper onscreen can’t be any older than 19 or 20 years old. The beat backing him up is as cheery as the melody he sings on the instantly catchy hook, built around a bright, gospel-influenced piano ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Did you know Kellogg's® Froot Loops® has been name-dropped in more than 1,000 hip-hop tracks across generations1? To celebrate hip-hop's creative ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout ...

EXCLUSIVE: Music video startup Loop Media will have six of its channels streaming on the Roku Channel. Loop Hottest, Loop Party, Loop Hip Hop, Loop 80’s, Loop 90’s and Loop Country will start ...

In 50 years, rap transformed the English language, bringing the Black vernacular’s vibrancy to the world. “Dave, the dope fiend shootin’ dope.” — Slick Rick, “Children’s Story” (1988) “Dopeman, ...