Foster Sylvers created a soundtrack producers like Dr. Dre have spent decades digging into, starting with his 1973 hit "Misdemeanor." RIP.

In the early 1990s, bass drummer Derrick Moss, snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc and other members of the Young Olympia Brass Band decided to split off to form a new brass band: The Soul Rebels. They wanted ...

In 1991, only one album into its career, De La Soul tried to pull off an unusually audacious move. The hip-hop trio’s 1989 debut, 3 Feet High and Rising, was a dense but accessible bricolage of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From MPCs to FL Studio sessions, one thing remains consistent across generations of Hip Hop and R&B: The power of the sample. With ...

Before NLE Choppa became a global rap superstar with more than 8 billion streams, he formed an unlikely friendship with a Dutch hip hop creative named Hari Loco. Years later, that friendship has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BET Hip Hop Awards 2024 - Credit: Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET The future of the BET Hip Hop Awards and Soul Train Music ...

Albums like To Pimp a Butterfly and 1999 blend jazz harmonies with sharp lyricism, proving the genre’s deep connection. Hip-hop may keep evolving, but funk and jazz remain its heartbeat, fueling its ...

On this day in 1993, Oakland trio Souls of Mischief released their influential debut album 93 ’Til Infinity on Jive Records, a project that would become one of the most celebrated releases in West ...

Twenty two years later, Soul Plane remains one of those films that people either love, hate, or secretly quote when nobody is ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...

Things are changing over at BET. In a recent interview with Billboard, the Black Entertainment Television network’s CEO, Scott Mills, reflected on BET’s history and the future of popular programs like ...

BET has reportedly suspended the Soul Train and Hip-Hop Awards, two of its annual music awards shows. "So for BET linear, we have suspended the Soul Train and Hip-Hop award shows," BET CEO Scott Mills ...