This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

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After Pop Smoke's tragic death in 2020, many wondered what would become of New York drill, and many naysayers claimed it died with him. Over the next year, several booming voices would knock at that ...

I’m sitting in the basement of a low-rise corner building in Bushwick with 23-year-old rapper/producer Cash Cobain, and it’s finally time to throw on the Spice Girls. The basement is a converted ...

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"People call it weird but really it's not, man. It's just new." The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. Every now and again we aim to illuminate these ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. What if Ableton music software had a built-in Github so musicians could contribute and modify samples ...

Even if you don't use samples anywhere else in your music, it's highly likely that you'll call on them when you're creating your drum tracks. Simple, static samples have a habit of sounding rather ...

When it comes to electronic music, the beat is everything. It’s the style and sound of a track’s drum groove that defines what genre it fits into. A track might, for example, have all the sonic ...