For three decades, the sound of a rap battle has been defined by a digital button. You know the sound. It’s the “reggae horn”—that rapid-fire Bwa-bwa-bwa-bwaaaaa sample that cuts through the tension ...

The air horn is, at this point, a sort of universal shorthand that shit is going down. Midway through a track, at the beginning of a verse, unprompted in the middle of a meeting with HR—it does not ...

Jebb McMillan, aka Jebb Mac, was already a seasoned performer before he picked up an acoustic guitar. "I was the hip-hop man from the folk-hop band – always had a beer can glued to his hand,” said ...