In the ’90s, rap music solidified itself as a genre that would soon spread all over the world to become the dominant global culture. But rap wouldn’t have reached such heights without learning to ...

Let’s get this out of the way at the beginning: there is no handful of songs that ever completely encapsulate any genre or artist or sound. The beauty of art is that it’s ephemeral—to quote a famed ...

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 ...

Look, I’ll be the first to admit that the ‘90s was the golden era of hip-hop. It was the decade where production became cinematic, storytelling reached its peak, and the culture truly went global. But ...

In a 1990 interview on “Slammin’ Rap Video Magazine,” conducted two years after their single “It takes Two” stormed dance floors, video shows and radio waves, Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock spoke plainly ...