BandLab has become a go-to platform for aspiring beatmakers, offering free, powerful tools to create rap beats from scratch. From laying down drums to adding melodies and sampling unique sounds, it’s ...

Loud Sound Studios is home to two of Rwanda's up-and-coming hip-hop acts: Pro-Zed and Kenny K-Shot. Hip-hop is all about the beats and the flow. For two Rwandan artists, that flow sometimes comes in ...

Hip-hop at it's core is lyrics on a beat, with both being vital for the final product. Throughout the genre's history, there have been some truly incredible beats that turned producers into stars, and ...

The FADER's longstanding Beat Construction interview series highlights today's most crucial producers and their craft. The first Cheecho beat to ever come out hit the internet two years ago, when a ...

Production is the cornerstone that every rap song is built upon, and these beats are the best the genre has to offer. Debate at will.

High school sophomore Vikas Prasad has one main goal: score a production placement with a major rap artist before the end of the school year. When he’s not in class, the 16-year-old spends most of his ...

But rap production has a somewhat abstract set of criteria for judging how hard a beat can be, and how a track can make the MC on it sound like an unstoppable Man of Steel. Maybe the drums sound like ...

“Cuphead Rap” should be a cornerstone of modern pop culture as we know it. Released in 2017 by JT Music, it’s a rap written from the perspective of Cuphead’s protagonist. Chronicling the struggles of ...