Lizzo called out music sampling laws as racially biased during a Million Dollaz Worth of Game interview and accused the system of criminalizing Hip-Hop’s roots. Lizzo called out music sampling laws ...

As we continue to celebrate hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, here’s how A Tribe Called Quest helped me appreciate one of the most important aspects of the genre. As a Queens native, my 15-year-old self was ...

In an interview with 'Million Dollaz Worth of Game', the musician spoke about how sampling polices Black creativity Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

The Christmas season in in full-swing, New Year's Eve is just around the corner, and the legendary band War is coming to funk up Anaheim! For the past few years, the classic sounds of ...

Any conversation regarding the historical context of rap music will almost certainly rely heavily on the near ritualistic practice of sampling, essentially using older songs as the basis as the basis ...

Hip-hop turned 50 last year. During that half-century, the technology used to create this globally influential sound has continually moved forward. However, there's one tool that has remained ...

Lizzo recalled the history of sampling in hip-hop, which led to legal issues. By Michael Saponara Lizzo is opening up about why she feels the origins of sampling laws were “racially charged.” The ...

I usually write this column based on whatever music I’m listening to during the week. Along with this column, my radio show on Wednesday nights follows the same idea, an hour of what I’ve been ...

What's the difference between a librarian and a hip-hop DJ? The answer is not as much as you think. Both are archivists, preserving and organizing the past, one through books, the other through music.

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, “Bizarre Ride,” appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] For four decades, one of hip-hop's biggest external ...

I’ve almost driven off the 405 twice. Once was because I blinked for a really long time. The other time was because of a song on the radio. It was a hip-hop song driven by a sample. The sample was ...

Hip-hop and our scene might seem like total opposites on the surface, but the genres collide more than you think. There’s the entire genre of emo rap that has been blowing up in recent years, as well ...