Piece by Piece, now streaming on Peacock, is Pharrell Williams’ take on a music doc, which means it’s shot through with the producer, musician, songwriter, designer, etc. etc.’s distinct brand of ...

This is true of anything, by the way: clips of speech, samples of environmental or found sounds, pieces of high modernist atonal music or musique concrete; hip-hop beats ... a 2Pac quote. The hook to ...

The DJing: the use of turntables and mixing boards to manipulate beats, sounds and samples ... In hip-hop, we see language at its most dynamic and evocative—driven by rhythm, rhymes and the power of a ...

“I started making GarageBand beats when I was 13—making awful songs ... When you think about songwriting, sometimes you think, perfect rhyme, pairs, round shapes, something easy to remember.

Flavor Flav, a rapper and hype man, joined too, bringing a massive stage presence and deeply underrated ability to spit rhymes ... samples and cuts pile up, the beats are chopped and diced ...

Apple, as you’ll know, has two headphone brands, Apple AirPods and Beats. It’s the second of those companies which just announced a new product, Beats Powerbeats Pro 2—and it’s just been ...

The fitness-focused Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 up the ante with noise cancellation, wireless charging, and heart rate monitoring, for bass-forward earbuds that excel at the gym. Editors' Note ...

After weeks of rumors that Travis Kelce might retire from the Kansas City Chiefs, an NFL insider offered an optimistic ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio ...

The past few years have seen Beats refresh some of its greatest hits and drop some instant classics, but the once-ubiquitous Powerbeats Pro — you know, those big ol’ exercise buds that wrap ...