10 months ago, Dubai-based beat producer AELI dropped his astounding debut album, Late Future Calls, an eight-track collection of futuristic rap and trap bangers heavily influenced by the sounds of ...

The FADER's longstanding series Beat Construction interviews crucial music producers. One of the most brilliant innovations in rap is the tag, a vocal sample or sonic quirk in the first few seconds of ...

Early rap music, like funk, has been split into countless subgenres, which often seem to be named by record collectors too young to have purchased the records when they first came out. The categories ...

In rock criticism, there are words that have simply been ruined by overuse; you just can’t get away with referring to a guitar riff as “angular” anymore. And as more and more writers—and bloggers, ...

Local hip-hop producer Weighn Beats, Chris Christopherson, has been at work making beats and just released his 18th album titled, It’s Just Business. “This is my fourth installment to my Hip ...

Is there a rap music community? There was. For decades, as rap grew in popularity, it sprouted different strains and sounds and subgenres. Rappers feuded bitterly with each other, sometimes with ...

The inaugural Hip-Hop Summit last year was a banger, taking over ABC Imaging at 77 Kalamath Street, where graffiti writers created their art outside and autographed young artists’ sketchbooks. Hip-hop ...