hip hop

By the time you see a star in the sky, it has been dead for millions of years. This is similar to the ARIA charts and radio: once you notice a new sound beginning to infiltrate the more commercial…

Unauthorised sampling in hip hop has been a legal minefield since the early '90s, when the genre began to build into a commercial force, and artists whose works were being manipulated and…

It's no secret that mental health issues are one of the biggest problems facing anyone who works in music, whether you're an artist or one of the many cogs in the machine, let alone an epidemic…

If there was one thing that could have killed Jay-Z’s career, it was success. The music of Shawn Carter has always been defined by its scrappiness, his songs underpinned by an explicit sympathy for…