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Telling stories about records, producers and gear that shaped hip-hop and making sounds for producers to flip into something new.

From T.R.O.Y. to Illmatic: How Pete Rock Shaped 90s Hip-Hop
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How The Pause Button Became Hip-Hop’s Secret Weapon
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How a 1973 Protest Song Became One of Hip-Hop’s Most Sampled Breaks
From T.R.O.Y. to Illmatic: How Pete Rock Shaped 90s Hip-Hop
How Flying Lotus Redefined What Instrumental Hip-Hop Could Sound Like
The SP-1200: 10 Seconds That Changed Hip-Hop
How The Alchemist Became Hip Hop’s Go-To Producer - YouTube
How Bobby Robinson Put Hip Hop’s First Crews on Wax
How Portishead Sampled Themselves to Make a Genre Defining Album
How The Skull Snaps’ Forgotten Break Became One of Hip Hop’s Most Sampled
How Roland's Rejected Drum Machine Shaped 40 Years Of Hip-Hop - YouTube
How ‘Apache’ Became Hip-Hop’s National Anthem
The Human MPC: How Questlove Unlearned Perfection to Make The Roots Tick
Inside RZA's Master Plan: How Wu-Tang Redefined New York Hip-Hop
How Marley Marl Accidentally Revolutionised Sampling in Hip-Hop
How a Japanese Producer Quietly Infiltrated Hip-Hop from Across the Globe
How Sylvia Robinson Made Hip-Hop’s First Hit Record
The Tragic Untold Story of Hip Hop’s Most Influential Producer
How 9th Wonder Reshaped Hip Hop For The Digital Age
How Clyde Stubblefield’s Drum Groove Changed Hip-Hop Forever
How the Dust Brothers Took Sampling to the Extreme
How Two Outsiders Created Hip-Hop’s Most Influential Mixes
How The Bomb Squad & Public Enemy Transformed Hip Hop’s Sound
How Dan the Automator Builds Hip-Hop’s Strangest Worlds
How Daft Punk’s Sampling on Discovery Shaped Pop Music
The Story of Ultimate Breaks & Beats
How DJ Shadow Sampled His Way Into History
How The Avalanches Built a Classic Using 1000+ Samples (The Story of Since I Left You)
Inside Madvillainy: What Producers Can Learn From Madlib’s Genius Sampling - YouTube
How Library Music Became Hip-Hop's Secret Weapon
Why HudMo's Butter Was Way Ahead of Its Time
From Detroit to Donuts: The Story of J Dilla’s Final Masterpiece
How The Avalanches Built a Classic Using 1000+ Samples (The Story of Since I Left You)

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