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For Elias Williams, the Hip-Hop Beat Machine Carries the Soul of Community #hiphop

newyorker.com March 22, 2025 hip hop 47

Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent amo...

Sheldon Pearce writes on Elias Williams’s “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” about the underground beat-maker scene in Queens, evoking Roy DeCarava and the m... Read more