When the excitement over Detox started up again last year, Dr. Dre even teased his next, next album — an instrumental project called The Planets, with songs inspired by the “personalities of each ...

this audio or video is no longer availableFor over a decade, UK electronic music specialist The Herbaliser has crafted expansive hip-hop instrumentals and hybrid funk and soul that has charmed the ...

Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that ...

Black Milk has one of the liveliest production styles in hip-hop, mixing instrumental funk with loose, chopped beats reminiscent of J Dilla. On his fourth full-length, he keeps the focus rhythmic, ...

Rap fans are like people stuck on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Hear me out. If you’ve never had the pleasure of driving on New York City’s most useless road, imagine eight lanes of perpetual gridlock.

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...

Whether you're a producer, vocalist or simply want some new jams to bring to karaoke night, Harris has laid out the LP on a silver platter. By David Rishty Calvin Harris dropped his fifth studio album ...