Articles This Week in Beat Making: A Mashup of 'The Star Spangled Banner' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' Pierce FreelonJul 05, 2013
Articles This Week in Beat Making: Major Lazer and a Crowd-Sourced Dancehall Competition May the best riddim win!Pierce Freelon30 Jun, 2013
Articles This Week in Beat Making: Sabar Drumming Deep in Dakar How Sabar drummers sample their drum sounds and created a one-of-a-kind West African drum kit to use for Beat Making Lab's electronic production.Pierce Freelon14 Jun, 2013
Articles Snoop Lion on Gun Control: End the Violence, Move Forward in Peace and Love Growing up in the streets of Long Beach, I’ve seen lots of homies fall victim to gun violence.Snoop Lion13 Jun, 2013
Articles This Week in Beat Making: Hip-Hop Made in a Senegalese Hospital Here's a crazy experiment: visit a hospital and try to make a beat using only sounds that you find at the facility.Pierce Freelon08 Jun, 2013
Articles This Rapping Flight Attendant Makes Flying Fun Mustering up a little creativity, instead of listing the pre-flight instructions, flight attendant David Holmes rapped them.Yasha Wallin01 Jun, 2013
Articles This Week in Beat Making: Crowdsourced Dancehall 'Riddims' This week in beat making: a challenge to create dancehall riddims.Pierce Freelon31 May, 2013
Articles This Week in Beat Making: An All Female Hip-Hop Crew From Dakar Beat Making Lab builds studios in cultural centers around the world and trains youth musicians in the art of beat making.Pierce Freelon24 May, 2013
Articles This Week In Beat Making: The Four Steps to Hip-Hop Success Some suggestions on how to achieve international success in music.Pierce Freelon19 May, 2013
Articles Global Beats: Producing Hip-Hop in a Blackout How Beat Making Lab and a street artist named Yomira John made music in the dark.Pierce Freelon10 May, 2013
Articles Street Signs With Street Cred: Why I'm Posting Hip-Hop Lyrics from Long Island to Flatbush Marking hip-hop history: Why one artist is marking every NYC corner with its related hip-hop lyric.Jason Shelowitz22 Apr, 2013
Articles People Are Awesome: Adam Yauch Makes Sure Beastie Boys Songs Won't Become Ad Jingles Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's will says that his songs and artistic property can't be used in advertisements.Phoebe Unterman13 Aug, 2012
Articles Hip-Hop's Civil Rights Advocates: The Beastie Boys Brought Hip-Hop to Suburbia How Adam Yauch and the Beastie Boys Brought Hip-Hop to Suburbia How a group of nice Jewish kids from Brooklyn made rap cool in my ultra-white American enclave.Cord Jefferson06 May, 2012
Articles America Is Dying Slowly: Talking About Hip-Hop After Trayvon Martin Rap music doesn’t get unarmed kids shot to death, “it’s different” does.Jack Hamilton08 Apr, 2012
Articles The Hidden Economics of Oakland's Rap Bohemia Are these starving hip-hop artists in Oakland underdogs—or the 1 percent of the no-budget rap game?Channing Kennedy29 Mar, 2012
Articles Hard Philanthropy: 50 Cent Fights Hunger With Energy Drink Is 50 Cent the new Sally Struthers? The gangsta rapper wants to feed a billion people in five years by selling energy drinks.Alex Goldmark20 Sep, 2011
Articles Video: Climate Scientists As Hardcore Rappers Watch as Australian climate scientists rap—and swear a lot—about their work. It's pretty funny, we swear.Ben Jervey13 May, 2011