On this date in 1989, Bed Stuy emcee Pete Nice joined forces with Far Rock mic ripper MC Serch and DJ RIchie Rich for the release of 3rd Bass’ debut LP The Cactus Album on the Def Jam/Columbia imprint ...

From discovering production at UCF to collaborations with Juicy J and Zaytoven, Tape B has built his sound around the increasingly fluid relationship between hip-hop and bass music. Long before Tape B ...

One of the latest innovations in dance music is freeform—a style that gets headbangers throwing down on the dancefloor. The genre, which saw early support from Liquid Stranger's WAKAAN label, is best ...

There is a type of music that has made "whether the bass is solid" the very standard for whether a song is good or bad. That ...

That was 50 years ago today. Though hip-hop’s oft-repeated origin story historically prioritizes the gift of poetics, we forget that rap’s storm of funk got the people going. From DJ Kool Herc’s ...

The Queens rapper's monster hit reached the milestone 12 years after its initial release. By Kyle Denis Just a few months after picking up her seventh competitive MTV Video Music Award (best hip-hop ...

The classic rock era often centers around flashy guitar solos, front-and-center vocal melodies, and massive drum fills. But there are certainly some incredible bassists from that golden age. It’s hard ...

Anthony Tidd is Philly/NYC transplant, originally from London. He’s a Grammy Award-winning musician, bassist, composer, producer, curator, and occasional writer of words. He owns the TidbiT Sonos ...

When Fisk University launches the first HBCU women’s collegiate gymnastics team, a group of determined young Black women fight impossible odds to make history—only to face triumph, heartbreak, and the ...

The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...