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 ...

Hip Hop has always celebrated the rare artists who can master both the boards and the booth. While most producers are content to shape soundscapes for others, a select few have proven they can step up ...

OPINION: TheGrio highlights 10 of the most important Black music producers not named Quincy Jones. Let’s get this out of the way — Quincy Jones is the GOAT music producer. So, there’s no need to put ...

Hit-Boy marks the second rap producer to be robbed in 2026 so far... and he has a special message for the unknown assailants ...

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 ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

The hip-hop community faced an unprecedented series of losses in 2024 that left fans and fellow artists devastated. These talented individuals shaped the culture in ways that will continue to ...

The next chapter of Atlanta rap is shaping up to be something of a return to form. Projects from Metro-Boomin and Anycia, as well as a crop of young rappers, are reprising the “Old Atlanta” feel. In ...