Education

The epi­thets ‘God­fath­er of Techno’ and ‘Ori­gin­at­or’ have been applied to the musi­cian and  pro­du­cer Juan Atkins who passed away on October …

Sampling is more than bor­row­ing some­body else’s melody. It’s music­al resur­rec­tion, cul­tur­al rebel­lion and an extraordin­ary act of artist­ic alchemy. But when …

Twenty years after Back to Black, it’s time to recog­nise that Amy Wine­house did­n’t just bor­row hip-hop’s sound. She used its tech­niques. Amy …

There was a time when suc­cess­fully imper­son­at­ing a rap­per required, at min­im­um, a base­ball cap, sev­er­al regret­table hand ges­tures and the confidence …

It’s been two years since the death of Sinéad O’Connor, and the grief still feels as fresh as her voice once sounded, …

Some artists make music. Oth­ers make a point. Amy True does both, and then burns the blue­print. Fea­tured on the cov­er of I …

The revolu­tion will not be algorithm-friendly.  There’s a cer­tain kind of main­stream hip hop lyr­ic these days that lands with all the weight …

It’s with great sad­ness that I Am Hip Hop Magazine announces the passing of musi­cian, pro­moter, DJ and act­iv­ist Dave Watts of Fun-Da-Men­tal. I …

The trans­ition to par­ent­hood is a jour­ney filled with sur­prises, where the once-famil­i­ar all-night­ers of dance floors and con­cert ven­ues are replaced …

In his latest book, Tik­Tok sen­sa­tion Big Manny steps up as your per­son­al guide to the world of at-home sci­ence exper­i­ments, and …