The FADER's longstanding Beat Construction interview series highlights today's most crucial producers and their craft. For upcoming rappers and producers today, the “type beat,” an instrumental ...

At just 26 years old, Lil Uzi Vert is one of the biggest rappers out. After coming up in the SoundCloud era, he's scored multiplatinum songs and albums, dropped plenty of projects and created a wave ...

Playboi Carti is one of the most successful rappers from the SoundCloud scene in 2014, and also one of the most polarizing. The 24-year-old out of Atlanta has focused less on lyrics and more on ...

Rabbit Holes is a recurring series in which writers pay homage to the diversity and ingenuity of the ways we procrastinate now. To pitch your personal rabbit hole, email [email protected].

Facebook actually has an internal division called the NPE which is responsible for coming up with new apps and services. However, a lot of these new ideas still get buried. The latest experiment as of ...

Loud Sound Studios is home to two of Rwanda's up-and-coming hip-hop acts: Pro-Zed and Kenny K-Shot. Hip-hop is all about the beats and the flow. For two Rwandan artists, that flow sometimes comes in ...