Having previously charted hip-hop artists by their vocabularies (and compared those vocabularies to Shakespeare and Moby Dick), Matt Daniels is back with another project that looks to recontextualize ...

Wayne because he’s Wayne, Burn One because his modern Southern beats are too underrated — Seattle’s Keyboard Kid because despite his deluge of material, there are always gems in there. His bleep-bloop ...

Sampling has been a cornerstone of hip-hop since its inception, with producers repurposing existing music to create entirely ...

Hip-hop has had a strong connection to reggae music since the days of DJ Kool Herc’s summer house parties in the early 1970s. Hip-hop’s foundation was built on elements of the Jamaican sound system ...