“Boom Bap,” from its title on down, feels like a joke about the idea that Doechii prefers to rap over fired-up dance beats. The song is only two minutes long, but it goes through a lot of change ...

At its core, Ash feels like a hip hop album. The beats and rhythms that drive their way through each track can easily be imagined as the backdrop for battling MCs trading lyrical insults around a ...

The acclaimed music-maker has elevated sampling to an art form, taking the eclectic jazz and soul records of his youth and bending them into new shapes for his beats. The scratching that often ...

“Boom Bap, Boom Style, Boom Voice.” Cue the big, blocky beats and turntablism of 1980s rap, over which he delivers furrow-browed, finger-wagging raps in that magnificently stentorian voice of hi ...