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Jay-Z to Trump: 'You have sprayed perfume on the trash can'
US President Donald Trump has hit back at Jay-Z after the rapper called him a "superbug".
Mike Elizondo - Producing hip hop's biggest names
US music producer Mike Elizondo talks to Wallace Chapman about collaborating with some of the biggest names in hip hop, including Dr Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dogg. Audio
The Sampler Summit: Beyoncé’s Lemonade
In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger convenes a Sampler Summit to discuss Lemonade, the new visual album by Beyoncé. Our panellists are ethnomusicologist Savali Andrews, musician and writer Jessie… Video, Audio
Run the Jewels: rewind the jewels
Run the Jewels - the critically lauded rap duo of Atlanta, Georgia consisting of native Killer Mike and Brooklyn-born and bred MC/producer El-P - is a project only two years deep, but their respective… Audio
The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop
As a musical genre built on wordplay, hip hop is home to some of the wordiest lyricists about. New York data scientist Matthew Daniels took it upon himself to work out just how wordy rappers are… Audio