This past weekend, I was watching the premiere of Rachel Sennott’s new influencer culture HBO comedy I Love LA when I was caught off guard by a name in the credits: Kenneth Blume. If you’ve been ...

The best rap beats are nerdy as hell. Every drum placement, every melody, every chopped-up sample sends me down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to piece together the way a producer contorts and dissects ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...