DJ Toomp produced Kanye West’s ode to his “big brother,” Jay-Z. The song replays a riff from Prince’s “It’s Gonna Be Lonely” from his 1979 self-titled album. 2Pac “Heartz Of Men” Taken from the last ...
Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that ...
Every musical generation tends to put forth a handful of "star players" within any given genre. Whether it be Los Angeles' Wrecking Crew or Motown's Funk Brothers, certain cliques of industry ...
TufAmerica, on behalf of Trouble Funk, recently filed a lawsuit against The Beastie Boys accusing them of copyright infringement for incorporating samples of two Trouble Funk recordings on four ...
Jeff Pearlman found the people who inspired the classic 1991 2Pac song, which has reverberated through hip-hop myth-making for decades. 1 day ago The Beasties' label Capitol Records is also named in ...
Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson just took home the Record of the Year Grammy for their 2014 collaboration “Uptown Funk,” and now it seems like the Sequence — an all-female rap group (Angie Stone, Cheryl ...
NEW YORK — Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders and a pioneer of the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, died of complications due to lung cancer ...