A great beat is a game changer. Period. Let’s just keep it a buck: Beats and melodies have outweighed lyrics in the eyes of most for a while and with attention spans becoming shorter and shorter, it ...

Hooks are one of the most essential parts of a hip-hop song, and help move a rapper's track to the top of the charts once its ingrained in the culture. On the flip side, there are plenty of memorable ...

When the excitement over Detox started up again last year, Dr. Dre even teased his next, next album — an instrumental project called The Planets, with songs inspired by the “personalities of each ...

Squabbling is a staple of hip-hop music. So is stealing. Except hip-hop artists have never considered it stealing to take riffs and pieces from each other's work. It's a form of creative appropriation ...