Tonight, at a 40th anniversary screening of Beat Street at the Tribeca Film Festival, GRAMMY Award-winning rap icon Nas announced that he has joined the creative team adapting the groundbreaking ...

You needn't be a rap fan to have stumbled across music-adjacent characters like DJ Akademiks, ... Max is an actual producer, creating beats for rappers and working through turning them into songs.

Later on, Murda told Rap Radar about putting together the “Nice For What” beat, chopping up that sample of Hill’s “care for me, care for me” bit from the end of the song. While Murda ...

Embarking on a rap career is a journey rich with rhythm, rhymes, and realness. It’s an art form where words weave intricate patterns of storytelling, and beats build the foundation on which ...

Iron sharpens iron, and we’d go at it hard every time a beat was played. André and I settled on a name, Outkast , and recorded “ Player’s Ball ” as a single in 1993.