Traditionally, lyrics have been the most important element of rap music, ... they are becoming just as in-demand for their beats. In rap's earliest days, the MC was secondary to the DJ.

The RZA has made many of rap’s rawest, grimiest beats of all time. But he often elects for a light touch with the drums, or a gently swaying groove over a propulsive, insistent beat.

Kanye West Thinks Nobody (Except For Him) Can Beat Kendrick Lamar In A Rap Battle. Derrick Rossignol Music News Editor Twitter. February 5, 2025. As the world learned in 2024, ...

No rapper alive should be able to properly rap over the beat to Outkast’s “B.O.B.” It clocks in at 135 beats per minute with a barrage of sounds each more forceful than the next.

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Kenny Beats Is a Rap Therapist Who Will Also Make You a Great Album. How an ex-EDM producer went back to his roots, and produced some of the best rap music of 2018 with Vince Staples, ...

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.

Pate gives evidence of how rap is the progeny of the earlier revolution of the Black Arts Movement and the Black Power movement. Yet, for me, even though the words of rebel black poets of the ...