808 kick drums. Rap-like rhythms ... country artists have strategic reasons to embrace hip-hop sounds and aesthetics. Country's drift toward hip-hop started in the late 2000s with the wave ...

Producers can blend the past and present to create new sounds, whether with a drum break ... While there are several classic hip-hop samples you need to know, other music genres have also recently ...

Hip-hop is a slower style with snares on beats two and four, built around samples. This sound came from DJs repeating the drum breakdown or ‘break’ sections of funk records and later gave ...

The roots of hip-hop and house music both lie in the seismic shifts of the late 1970s, a period of sociopolitical unrest and electronic experimentation that redefined the possibilities of sound.

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...