Hip-hop tracks are extremely diverse, but they're generally characterised by repetitive beats with plenty of bottom-end and rapping. Their extreme levels of sub bass provided the blueprint for the ...

If Mase played house music, it might sound like Xzavier Stone's XZ. The four songs on his new EP have tons of hip-hop drums and occasionally braggadocios raps, but they also contain the ecstasy of ...

Innovation is no longer a prerequisite for success in a hip-hop galaxy built on marketing formulas, video budgets, gangster posing and conspicuous consumption of name-brand luxuries. But it was alive ...

It's now been 50 years since the birth of hip-hop, the genre has come a long way since the parties of DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx in the 1970s. From an underground movement combining music, culture, and ...