The 7 p.m. concert, a partnership between the DSO and the Detroit Pistons, is in honor of Detroit-born producer, composer and ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube.But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

Zulu’s Beat Masters Battle is an annual competition that pits local hip-hop producers in a head-to-head skirmish for beat supremacy.

Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop.

There’s a raw energy in the air—a palpable, jittery anticipation as the old guard of hip-hop production gets tossed aside by the relentless force of technological innovation and cultural upheaval.