On this day in 1993, Blastmaster KRS-One stepped out on his own and released his first solo album, Return of the Boom Bap, marking a powerful new chapter in the legacy of Boogie Down Productions.

Boom bap stands as one of the most iconic cornerstones of hip‑hop’s sonic identity, a production aesthetic that reverberates with the gritty pulse of urban streets and the meticulous craftsmanship of ...

Logic is consumed by his love for nostalgia and YSIV is his personal and myopic monument to a bygone era. Across 14 tracks, the Maryland rapper is obsessed with the idea of "boom-bap”—a phrase he uses ...

DIIV just released their terrific fourth album Frog in Boiling Water (read our review) which pulls influence from all manner of early-’90s alt-rock and lands right as the current shoegaze revival is ...

Anderson Paak offers a mission statement early on his Malibu album, which hit shelves last Friday: “I bring you greetings from the first church of boom bap-tists.” Boom bap, a head-nodding subgenre of ...

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Blastmaster KRS 1 dropped his first solo album 30 years ago today. Sometimes the best way to do things is to do it yourself. This is the realization that KRS, the general of the Boogie Down ...

It’s been nearly a decade since the iconic concert Rock the Bells brought hip-hop’s greatest acts together for a night of epic performances. In 2008, monumental MCs such as A Tribe Called Quest, the ...

Xperiment (aka Courtland Urbano) is an out of this world supersonic architect of sound. His beats are a perfect synthesis between a test to discover or prove the unknown and the balance of validating ...

French-Canadian singer, songwriter and producer Josie Boivin performs under the name MUNYA. In 2018 Boivin began work on what would become a series of three EPs each named after significant geographic ...

Seattle Weekly: As Boom Bap Project, you, DJ Scene, and Destro have been around Seattle’s hip-hop scene for a few years, but your new album, Reprogram, is being released by Rhymesayers Entertainment, ...