INSTRUMENTAL

Thelonious Martin, the Chicago production virtuoso who has worked with the likes of Vic Mensa, Curren$y, and Joey Bada$$, has come through with a 3-track surprise EP, Static, perfect for winding down on a Sunday evening.

It's been a minute since WondaGurl uploaded an instrumental just for the hell of it onto her Soundcloud.

Well here’s a pleasant surprise. Out of nowhere, legendary producer 9th Wonder decides to drop off a new beat tape for the fans called Zion.

Everyone seems to miss the old Kanye West, so much so that Yeezy even made a track about his most often-cited criticisms.

Kirk Knight has blessed fans with a new 10-track instrumental album called DUST. The project is compromised entirely of beats from unmixed, unmastered beats from 2013 and is available to purchase for $7 via Bandcamp.

After making beats for guys like Dizzy Wright and Skeme, Belgian producer Alex Lustig teamed up with Las Vegas emcee Euroz last month for For No Good Reason, a joint 7-track EP, and that's when his skills really became apparent.

J Dilla’s posthumous album released a couple weeks ago, giving us an in-depth look at J Dilla’s emcee skills as well as his production chops.

Alex Lustig is a producer all the way from Antwerp, Belgium who has been making serious moves in the rap game, producing for the likes of Skeme, Dizzy Wright, and Machine Gun Kelly.

Young God is one half of the San Francisco production duo Blue Sky Black Death, known for their production work alongside innovative underground rappers like Deniro Farrar and Nacho Picasso.

Earlier this month, Mac Miller Larry Fisherman kicked off a new instrumental series called !Go Fish!, which will find him linking up with various emcees, and providing the backdrops for them to spit over. After hearing Conway tackle Vol.

BADBADNOTGOOD are here to keep the jazz vibe alive with their new track “Speaking Gently.” The group posted the song to their YouTube channel along with a very casual announcement that their next album IV is “coming soon.”

Flying Lotus is always experimenting with his sound, most recently on his excellent 2014 album You’re Dead!

Talented producer Flying Lotus is always pushing the limits of his productions, most recently on his excellent 2014 album You’re Dead!

Montreal-based producer Kaytranada appeared on Benji B’s BBC Radio 1 show last night to share details on his upcoming album 99.9%. Along the way, Benji convinced him to play a new song off the record. That song is “Bus Ride” feat.

Seattle producer Jake One has been providing dope instrumentals to many of your favorite rappers for years, but he’s old school enough that he doesn’t keep them to himself.

Sango's flagship Da Rocinha series blends thundering 808s and razor sharp high hats with Brazilian percussive elements and Portuguese vocal samples.

Production duo Blended Babies have worked with a number of great hip hop artists, including Anderson. Paak, Ab-Soul and The Cool Kids.

Well here’s a nice way to close out 2015. Out of nowhere, Mac Miller Larry Fisherman decides to come through and surprise fans this evening by releasing the sequel to his 2013 beat tape Run On Sentences.

With today marking the release of the highly-anticipated new Star Wars movie, super producer Timbaland decided to celebrate by releasing a new instrumental with fellow beatmaker, !llmind, called “The Force (Turn Up).”

It's been a minute since producer araabMUZIK hit us with a For Professional Use Only instalment, however this new EP should satiate fans. 

Mike Dean's been busy these days. After sharing the extended version of The Weeknd's "Tell Your Friends" as "When I See It" the talented producer delivers an instrumental to the fans.

Probably the best hip hop news to surface this week was the announcement of a new J Dilla album called Dillatronic. The album is due out on October 30 and will feature OVER 40 unreleased, electronic-influenced Dilla instrumentals.

El-P recently announced that he would be contributing to the score of the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, and even shared a snippet of one of his pieces on a recent episode of Run The Jewels' Beats Music radio show.

It's been a quick roll out for producer Alchemist's new project, Retarded Alligator Beats.

Respected producer Pete Rock returns today, after a good fifteen years, to follow up his 2001 instrumental effort Petestrumentals. The producer recalls his '90s heyday with Petestrumentals 2, providing a free stream of the album via Mello Music Group.

A month ago, producer duo Blended Babies hit us with their instrumental EP, 1, the first in a series of instrumental EPs the two are working on.

Beats. For most fans of rap music, they're just the background for the "real" action: the lyrics. To others, they can make or break a track completely. And to some, beats are music all by themselves.