Ranging anywhere from 80-140bpm, both US and UK urban beats feature unique rhythmic tropes. Let’s look at a few… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Yes, Kim Gordon of legendary alt-rock band Sonic Youth makes trap music now. And it’s actually good, for the most part.

The Roland-TR808 is the backbone of a lot of trap rap and EDM, and now the two genres are beginning to intersect. Credit: Joe Holmes In the mid-aughts a wave of steely-eyed southern rappers introduced ...

Trap gets thrown around so casually that almost any rap song ends up wearing the label. You hear someone rapping over a beat with drums? That’s trap. A song has a heavy bassline? Trap. A rapper uses ...

In 24 hours, a 72-year-old man from Chicago went from an unknown, amateur producer to a small viral phenomenon. Last Monday, Arthur DuBois walked into Haven Studio with a simple mission: find someone ...

Producer: A-Trak Album: N/A Label: Fools Gold Fool's Gold head honcho A-Trak recently wrote a candid editorial about how rap's preoccupation with drugs worries him as a non-user, but his reservations ...

At Life Abundantly Church in the Deep South town of Conyers, Georgia, Sunday service is underway. Among the 40-strong congregation this morning, like every Sunday, is Xavier Dotson, aka Zaytoven. As ...

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 ...

In rock criticism, there are words that have simply been ruined by overuse; you just can’t get away with referring to a guitar riff as “angular” anymore. And as more and more writers—and bloggers, ...