Let’s kick it off at the most obvious place to start—old school hip-hop. Old school for me encompasses most hip-hop from the late 70s and mid to late 80s. And yes—there … See more

Boom-bap gets its name from its distinctive drum production style. The mid-90s old-school hip-hop genre made heavy use of strong kicks and snare, sometimes putting those dru… See more

Jazz rap has close ties to the boom-bap era of hip-hop. That’s because so many of the samples boom-bap producers used came from jazz and soul vinyls. Jazz rap in the early 2000… See more

If there’s one genre of hip-hop you hear about most these days it’s trap. Right now mainstream hip-hop—and really mainstream music in general from country to pop—is … See more