Hip-hop production has evolved from block party turntables to AI-powered beat-making, constantly absorbing new influences while honoring its roots. Producers blend sampling, live instrumentation, and ...

In the 2010s, a hoard of bold, genre-bending artists helped shift rap music into a more melody-driven genre. By the mid-2010s, many hip-hop fans didn’t know what to make of Young Thug’s incoherent, ...

Hip-hop production in 2026 blends timeless craft with cutting-edge tools, from AI-generated beats to advanced vocal mixing techniques. Whether you’re chasing gritty underground vibes or polished chart ...

The Future of Music Interview is a Q&A in which our favorite artists and producers share their visions of what’s next, weighing in on everything from AI to emerging scenes to the artists inspiring ...

“Whoa, Kenny!” If you’ve been paying any attention to rap in 2018, chances are you’ve come across that producer tag, the trademark of Greenwich, Conn. native ...

Editor's note: This is an update on a UDaily story about the UD Music Production Club, which was published in April 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic was settling over America. Sam Goetz, who ...

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 ...

Until 2015, though, it appeared that soul as a mainstream genre was, for the most part, dying out. The few times that I remember hearing such '70s- and '80s-tugging melodies blaring at a public venue ...

The hip-hop landscape witnessed a significant moment as Offset released his latest single TEN on February 14, 2025. The release marks the artist’s first solo venture of the year, demonstrating his ...