It's a golden age for Milwaukee hip-hop. Here are 18 rappers you need to know about.
With millions of streams to major write-ups to big record deals, the buzz has never been bigger for Milwaukee rap thanks in part to these artists.
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The 1994 Quincy Jones Bay Area Hip-Hop Connection
In the ’90s, Hip-Hop music really began to take over the music industry, even though it was still dismissed by some older ...
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The 25 best hip-hop samples of all time
Hip-hop has existed for over 50 years, and since its inception, the genre has mastered the art of sampling to create some of the most iconic records in music history. Effectively using a sample ...
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Rap Sheet: The Hip-Hop Stars Endorsing Trump or Harris
‘TRUMP TRUMP BABY’: Rapper Forgiato Blow, who calls himself “the Donald Trump of rap," explains why young voters and the ...
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In Senegal’s thriving hip-hop scene, this beatmaker insists women have a seat at the table
Cut it, duplicate the sample ... and offers free training in everything from DJing to photography in an effort to transform young people's interest in hip-hop into professions.
Q&A: RZA on the nostalgic origins of his first classical album, 'A Ballet Through Mud'
Looking through the books, a series of storytelling raps stood out — ones that he’d deemed too “immature” to use when he ...
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Golden-age rappers make a digital-age leap — and survive
On surprising new albums, '80s trailblazers LL Cool J and MC Lyte sound thrillingly revitalized, thanks to sharp production ...
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De La Soul's Trugoy The Dove: "We never wanted to sound like anyone else"
De La Soul’s 2016 album and the Anonymous Nobody… marked the legendary group’s return after a lengthy hiatus, yet to label it ...
How Jamaica’s 1950s DJs Gave Rise to Their Counterparts on the Disco and Hip-Hop Scenes
In his new book, ‘And the Roots of Rhythm Remain,’ music impresario Joe Boyd traces the vast influence of global music. Here, ...
In Afternoon Blues Club, kids learned about connections to today's music. They played along, too.
Milwaukee Academy of Science teacher Ian Harper ran the summer program, with funding from the Northwestern Mutual Foundation.
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5 things to do this weekend, including HONK! Festival a dance performance
He will perform a dance piece on Friday “navigating masculinity and expressions of love.” General admission tickets are $35 ...
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LL Cool J Gave The 2024 VMAs Crowd A Hip-Hop History Lesson With His Medley Performance
but also encompassed many of his signature hits going back to his glory days in hip-hop’s Golden Age. Opening with “Headsprung” (remixed with the now-familiar Mohawks sample, “The Champ ...