Widely used by discerning crate-diggers and hip-hop heads, the best Blue Note samples have become part of the cultural fabric. Emerging in the mid-70s and blooming spectacularly in the 80s ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ab-Soul, Ferg, and Cordae. The past few weeks have featured a glut of new hip-hop, so even though this week slows things down ...

Hip-hop may be associated more with brags and bling than goodwill and giving, but the best Christmas hip-hop and R&B songs are gifts that keep on giving. “Let it snow” might mean something ...

What’s more, if you’re after crispness and definition, processing loops also has its limitations. Here we’re going to look at a hybrid approach to trip-hop beats that provides the best of both worlds.

Our full list of picks for the best full-length hip-hop projects ever made is out now. Hip-Hop has spoiled us. In the 50 years since a group of kids decided to throw a party in the Bronx ...

It continues to speak for a generation, never deviating far from its roots. Scroll down for the top ten hip-hop tracks of the 21st Century, as voted by 1Xtra listeners. Listen to the top 20 hip ...

Instead of sorting out nearly everything that released this week, we've narrowed it down to strictly the best of the week, saving you plenty of time. Expect to see selections from the established ...