https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/genres/hiphop/Latest entries for the tag HipHopenThu, 23 Nov 2023 14:04:16 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kiefer-how-to-b-u/Kiefer is passionate about sharing his process - “This is my life's passion. I love talking about this stuff. It's my favorite thing!” But let’s be clear, this is not a passion of self-reflective, navel-gazing inquiry into only his own process, the LA-based artist is passionate about exposing how music…Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:04:16 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kiefer-how-to-b-u/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/hitech-reinventing-ghettotech/Bound by their techno roots and call-and-response rap phraseology, Detroit-bred HiTech is a collaboration between producers and vocalists King Milo, Milf Melly and DJ 47Chops. Despite their individualized takes on Motor City culture, they held a shared desire to create a new blueprint for the gritty ghettotech sub-genre and spent…Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:57:00 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/hitech-reinventing-ghettotech/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/cloudchord-tending-the-bloom-bap-garden/The cover art for Cloudchord’s latest album, Bloom Bap, features a guitar with a neck that loops around and morphs into a branch, passing by a tree stump that doubles as a turntable. The trippy nighttime gardenscape is a fitting visual representation for Derek VanScoten’s music, in which lush layers…Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:08:04 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/cloudchord-tending-the-bloom-bap-garden/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/good-timing-beatmaking-with-auto-warp-in-live-113/Auto-Warp is the feature in Live that helps you tighten up loose timing and tempo variations, detect the downbeat in any kind of audio and snap it all to the grid. In Live 11.3, you can drag longer samples or even entire tracks into your Sets and let the algorithm…Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:50:48 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/good-timing-beatmaking-with-auto-warp-in-live-113/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/beat-generation-making-lo-fi-hip-hop-on-the-new-push/Watch Jamie Blake create a breezy lo-fi hip hop beat in this 10-minute tutorial on Push. Learn how he brings an organic feel to his drums, instruments and effects by mapping them all to the new expressive pads, and builds out the percussion section by auto-warping a polymetric loop. Keep…Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:17:01 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/beat-generation-making-lo-fi-hip-hop-on-the-new-push/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tiger-jk-the-korean-rap-legend-on-beats-rhymes-and-life/If you listen to much K-pop you’ll know that a rap verse will almost inevitably be dropped into any major hit these days – usually right after the first chorus. You could almost call it a tradition. But it wasn’t always this way with hip-hop in Korea. Back in 1995,…Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:52:51 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tiger-jk-the-korean-rap-legend-on-beats-rhymes-and-life/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/afriqua-presents-principles-of-black-music-improvisation/Part Five of a Five Part Series Read Part One here, Part Two here, Part Three here, Part Four here In the beginning, there was Improvisation. There had to be. Before music could ever be remembered, written down, or recorded, some intrepid caveman just had to bang it out. That…Fri, 25 Mar 2022 14:24:04 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/afriqua-presents-principles-of-black-music-improvisation/ArtistsNewshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kenny-beats-connecting-dots/When the late rapper and music producer Daniel Dumile (popularly known as MF DOOM) was asked how he combats writer’s block, his answer was simple: “The way that creativity works for me, it comes to you like an energy stream or something. It comes in waves. You’ve just got to…Fri, 25 Jun 2021 08:54:34 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kenny-beats-connecting-dots/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/zuli-very-modern-sampler/The importance of sampling in the evolution of electronic music can never be overstated. Especially when considering the building blocks of hip hop and jungle, using recorded material as a sound source for manipulation and exploration completely tore down preconceived notions about who could make music and what skills or…Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:11:34 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/zuli-very-modern-sampler/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kaelin-ellis-the-internets-busiest-music-producer/Kaelin Ellis makes you feel like you’re in the room with him. The Orlando-based producer was magnetic during our video call, as if inviting a complete stranger to learn about his creative process through a computer screen was, for him, just another Friday afternoon. And, in a way, it is.…Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:19:08 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kaelin-ellis-the-internets-busiest-music-producer/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/studies-sound-arbour-lo-fi-beats-and-musical-exploration/Though primarily known for chill lo-fi beats and study beats playlists on YouTube and Spotify, the artist known as Arbour’s origins weren’t exactly auspicious. Like many electronic musicians, the Seattle-based artist (real name Hans Watkins) got his start on a decidedly modest setup. Eighteen years old at the time, and…Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:48:41 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/studies-sound-arbour-lo-fi-beats-and-musical-exploration/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/justus-west-nurturing-creativity/“How I look at musical talents is almost like X-men” says Justus West when referring to the musical superpowers of the people he considers genius. “You can almost trace it back to when they first discovered their power, and it’s always some traumatic moment in their life. They set off…Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:35:27 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/justus-west-nurturing-creativity/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/just-feeling-it-mapping-lives-musical-evolution/Dallas native and In Real Life artist Liv.e (pronounced Liv) is quick to credit her family for nurturing her love of sound. Between her father playing keys for regional blues and gospel acts, her mother singing in the local church, and her brother Taron Lockett drumming for Erykah Badu and…Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:13:22 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/just-feeling-it-mapping-lives-musical-evolution/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/knxwledge-staying-in-go-mode/Knxwledge might be the only person on earth prepared for 2020. “Quarantine is regular over here,” remarked the 32-year-old producer over a video call from his home studio. Long before staying inside was a mandate, Knxwledge was streaming it live with Earl Sweatshirt. And before livestreaming was one of the…Fri, 09 Oct 2020 07:56:35 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/knxwledge-staying-in-go-mode/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-freddie-joachim-on-chopping-samples-beatmaking-and-more/Freddie Joachim chops up some Rhodes samples, slices drum breaks and lays down some live guitar. From turning shakers into hi-hats to creative quantizing and creating stereo width, his session is loaded with classy techniques to make a seriously smooth jam.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:11:40 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-freddie-joachim-on-chopping-samples-beatmaking-and-more/ArtistsTutorialsVideos