The new adidas ZX 2K Boost takes inspiration from the classics to create a modern icon. Complex AU looks at the way hip-hop is doing the same thing. Hip-hop began with samples. From the genre’s ...

Dedicated students of ’90s hip-hop revere and revel in the soul sample chop. (For those illiterate in hip-hop speak, chopping is when a sample is cut into pieces to be used instrumentally in a track, ...

High school sophomore Vikas Prasad has one main goal: score a production placement with a major rap artist before the end of the school year. When he’s not in class, the 16-year-old spends most of his ...

On 'The Almanac of Rap,' Born I unpacks how Buddhist ideas show up in hip-hop and what often gets misunderstood. Since the last one blew up, here’s one you probably didn’t know 👀 #rayymonbeatz ...

Kon: "A guy from Boston named Bob Gibson, who taught me a lot, pretty much supplied a lot of records that were sampled for some of the most prolific hip-hop albums of the '90s, like Diamond D's Stunts ...

Trip-hop is a style that’s highly dependent on its laid back feel and this is often achieved using slowed down sampled loops and breaks. Building your track from loops is definitely a valid approach, ...