Even as hip-hop continues to stretch its sonic and conceptual boundaries, there is something comforting about the tried and true formula of beats and rhymes, which, when done right, hit the spot like ...

His beats tend to marry raw, air-popping drums — which sound like they’re being beatboxed through wet lips — with yearning howls from old gospel records. And over the years the results from this ...

But Jay-Z had other ideas, asking 9th to return to the studio a few days later. That day, in a span of about a half-hour, 9th transformed a sample from an R. Kelly song into something that Jay-Z was ...

A cultural shift that started 50 years ago in the Bronx, New York wouldn’t be what it is without 1086 East 17th Street in Winston-Salem. It was at that Cleveland Avenue Homes address where a ...