For seven years, music producer Ryan Burvick has given people incarcerated on Rikers Island and in other correctional facilities around New York City the chance to learn the art of hip-hop through a ...

What are you doing from 4 to 6 a.m.? J. Cole is all business. "We flew to L.A just to play this shit for [No I.D.]," he explains in this video. "N**ga stood up and clapped. I was like, 'Fuck yeah, ...

J. Simone is a 20-year-old female producer making a success of her life by perfecting her craft and selling music to independent artists and television production shops. The love of music is something ...

Sade Alvarez-Gibson, 15, raps into a studio microphone in a makeshift booth made of blankets, while Oladele Kiambu, 17, records: “Keeping my mind focused / I’m controlling my reality / My grind’s an ...

Even if you aren’t familiar with L.A. production collective Internet Money, you’ve heard their beats. The group's sounds have powered some of hip-hop’s biggest records in the past couple years, from ...

Today anyone with an iPad and GarageBand can make the ingredients of modern music: beats. And 300,000 artists in their garages, bedrooms and condos are doing exactly that ... with some of them making ...

Most fans of the defunct band Le Tigre appreciated the trio not only for its music and message, but for its punk-rock, do-it-yourself work ethic. "The whole thing of teaching myself how to use a drum ...

Yeti Beats, known less commonly as David Sprecher and far more commonly as Doja Cat’s producer, may seem like a creative figure of phenomenal overnight fame. However, the Los Angeles producer and ...

Chlöe Bailey is best known as a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, but she’s proven just as talented on the boards, earning the Powerhouse Producer Award at the inaugural Girls Make Beats gala on ...