| Champion Sounds: Onra’s 10 Favorite Dilla Flips | March 18, 2025 |
David Ma links with Onra to get the list of his 10 favorite Dilla sample flips – from Busta Rhymes to Common and A Tribe Called Quest.
| An Interview With Slum Village DJ Dez Andres | July 14, 2024 |
Gautham Nagesh speaks to the hip-hop and house music veteran about the impact of J Dilla, posthumous recognition, building a community and more.
| Bass Clarinet Boom Bap | November 18, 2022 |
Chris Robinson explores hip-hop's history of sampling the bass clarinet and finds a grab bag of eleven tracks featuring the big licorice’s luscious low-end frequencies.
| At the Speeds of Life | May 17, 2022 |
Both DJ Screw and J Dilla biographies make the persuasive argument that the work of each producer was a combination of specific, unique genius, and of insight derived from their cities.
| An Interview With Dan Charnas, Author of the New Book ‘Dilla Time’ | February 3, 2022 |
In his new book, Dan Charnas takes a deep dive into J Dilla's singular genius as an inventor of completely new rhythmic structures.
POW premieres the latest track from Phat Kat's 'Carte Blanche' reissue, "It Don't Get No Liver Than This."
Lara Gamble chats with legendary rap photographer B+ about his many stories shooting rap's biggest names.
| London Inspiration: BBE 20 Years Later | September 8, 2016 |
Joel Biswas talks to BBE Records founder Pete Adarkwah about how a party turned into one of the U.K.'s best indie labels.
| The Rap Up: Week Of April 8 | April 11, 2016 |
Offset gets targeted by law enforcement, Fabolous continues to misspell "Fabulous," Conway puts on a balaclava, and more!
| The Rap-Up: Week of Feb. 19th | February 18, 2016 |
New old Kanye, another consistent Spitta Andretti tape, a new project from Ras G, and more.
