Williams got a big break in 1992, when he wrote a verse on the Wreckx-n-Effect’s hit “Rump Shaker.” Although they didn’t know ...

TMZ has reported that hip hop mogul and record producer Irving Lorenzo, better known to the world as Irv Gotti, has reportedly died in New York City after recently suffering a stroke that led to ...

Tobias Smith, Grammy-winning producer behind Kanye West's "Jail" and Swerve Strickland's AEW themes, died January 19 at age 43 years old.

Hip-hop producers live in uncertainty. Flipping samples, breaking rules, and trusting instinct is part of the job. That same skill set carries into betting, investing, and startups, where reading ...

ATLANTA — Atlanta is considered a hip-hop capital when it comes to music, producing Grammy Award winners like Outkast, Killer Mike, Ludacris, 21 Savage and Future. You may not know the names of the ...

Irv Gotti, music producer and co-founder of Murder Inc. Records who helped launch the careers of artists like Ja Rule and Ashanti, has died on Feb. 5, according to his family. He was 54. Gotti's three ...

The talented rapper/produer/lunatic is the most visible member of the Odd Future crew. He doesn’t think much of his raps if you take his tweets to heart, but he prides himself on his beats. As one of ...

Nathan Ard had no intention of winning the 2024 edition of 206 Zulu’s Beat Masters Beat Battle. Last June, Ard, a producer-rapper also known as Third Eye Bling, simply showed up to the beatmaking ...

After wrapping the last century on a high note that only Mariah Carey’s vocal cords could challenge, R&B and hip-hop’s contributions to the musical canon swelled in the first 25 years of the 21st ...

Hip-hop has made its way into the academy and is increasingly becoming accepted as a legitimate field of inquiry, with many top universities around the country offering classes in hip-hop studies, ...

The Queens native responsible for some of hip hop’s biggest acts like Ja Rule and Ashanti reportedly passed away Wednesday in New York City. TMZ has reported that hip hop mogul and record producer ...