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 ...

In the mid-1980s, Ron G. became the master of the blend tape. By putting together R&B and hip-hop instrumentals, he and a DJ named Hot Day (whose "Hot Day Master Mix" married New Edition to Public ...

The post 15 Best Hip-Hop Mixtapes of All Time appeared first on Consequence. So much of hip-hop history was recorded on humble mixtapes, from early concerts captured on cassettes to the digital ...

Struggle rappers, rejoice! Araabmuzik has released a ton of free and original instrumentals on his bran new mixtape, For Professional Use Only. Araab has produced hit records for a myriad of rap stars ...

A week ago, Lil B pulled a 2Pac and got his nose pierced. Of all the face work dude could get done, a schnoz hoop is thankfully a conservative route for the boss: provocatively feminine, Makaveli ...

Alexander Spit is a formidable MC whose California pedigree is done justice by his verbal mashup of vintage undie-rap styling and deeply psychedelic content. His Decon debut, A Breathtaking Trip to ...

Clams Casino, source of last year’s Instrumentals mixtape, has gifted the world with a new selection of his instrumental tracks. He announced it and provided a download link on Twitter the other day – ...

Right now, Clams Casino is the shit-hottest producer in the world, the single point at which a clutch of America’s most cutting-edge trends converge. Basically, Michael Volpe is co-ordinating a rap ...

Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult. By Brian ...

On a Tuesday night a few weeks ago, the rapper Wale showed up with his entourage at Premier Studios in New York's Times Square, entered the vocal booth, and over a string-heavy march-like instrumental ...