While it's sometimes hard to see past Kanye West's trend-setting singles, he's not the only key member of hip-hop's new school. That class also includes A-list artists like Jay-Z, the Roc-A-Fella kingp …

In the renegade spirit of his admitted ancestor RZA, Kanye West doesn't just stockpile soul samples and beefy drum breaks - he treats his tracks like kaleidoscopic movie scores, with loops that leap fr …

It's hard to believe now that he's one of the world's biggest hip-hop stars, but there was a time when no one - not even his partner in rhyme, Jay-Z - wanted to co-sign Kanye West's newfound rap …

While it took Diddy a couple years to jumpstart his solo career with the shimmering Grandmaster Flash hook of "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down," shades of his chart-conquering sound have popped up since the  …

Unlike the super producers before him, Diddy didn't reinvent the rap game by swiping breaks from James Brown and Parliament. He did it by stretching his secret stash of '80s samples and left field loop …