Drake made sure to enlist the brightest in the game as well as a few legends for his new studio album, Scorpion. Released Friday (June 29), the double-disc release pulls from Drizzy’s multiple musical ...

This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

Hip-hop is a genre that's always been based on sampling. And, at times, that relationship has often been very contentious and complicated. A new music tech service called Tracklib has the mission of ...

Confession, a newly announced label run by French producer Tchami, is dropping a track from a mysterious producer called MALAA today, and it bumps. “Notorious” samples The Notorious B.I.G.’s ode to ...

German production-music company Sonoton Music has an enviable client list in terms of artists, with Kendrick Lamar, PinkPantheress, ...

Al Green’s biggest hit is called “Let’s Stay Together,” but for his latest long-player, the famed Memphis soul singer declined to take his own advice. After reuniting earlier this decade with producer ...

I’m sitting in the basement of a low-rise corner building in Bushwick with 23-year-old rapper/producer Cash Cobain, and it’s finally time to throw on the Spice Girls. The basement is a converted ...