Southern hip-hop’s influence continues shaping modern music through strategic sampling, with artists like Future, GloRilla and Sexyy Red drawing from classic Southern tracks. Recently, Juicy J noted ...

Sampling in hip-hop has been going on since the genre’s inception, but in 2023, it’s been more prevalent than ever. If everything sounds familiar, it’s because it definitely is. Words: Grant Rindner ...

Kendrick Lamar has consistently been known as one of the world’s most prominent storytellers and a rooted artist in hip-hop’s fertile history. GNX is an immersion into 90s hip-hop and R&B-the golden ...

We’re still reeling from last week’s loss of funk legend Sly Stone, who suffered from a prolonged battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It’s hard to even capture in words how profound and ...

Although newer artists and producers continue to breathe new life into the endless possibilities of sampling, there’s been growing criticism of contemporary popular music reaching back to sample the ...

Aliffer Zamira Sabek built Seeds of Liberation on the belief that freedom begins with food, rest and real community — not rhetoric. What started as direct action in the streets has grown into an ...

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the ...