Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones, Pt. II” beat has been crowned as the greatest in the history of Hip-Hop. As part of its Hip-Hop’s Greatest 50 Beats list, Rock The Bells put together a panel of cultural ...

Jeff Pearlman found the people who inspired the classic 1991 2Pac song, which has reverberated through hip-hop myth-making for decades.

Havoc, one-half of the legendary group Mobb Deep, has finally cleared up the confusion over the stove "sample" he and the late Prodigy used on their classic hip-hop anthem "Shook Ones Part II" from ...

In an Vevo Footnotes edition of the video for Mobb Deep’s 1995 Queens rap classic “Shook Ones, Pt. II,” uploaded to the erstwhile duo’s YouTube channel last week, Havoc writes about an incident on set ...

The LA Times Pop & Hiss blog published an article about the origins of hip-hop sampling and the aesthetics it used to have compared to the Internet age where information is found almost instantly. The ...

With the help of Fat Beats Records, Reid was able to re-imagine 13 tracks from The Infamous, including “Shook Ones (Pt. II),” “Survival of the Fittest” and “Temperature’s Rising.” “Rakim’s manager put ...

After nearly 30 years and much debate, Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Pt. II" has officially been named the greatest hip-hop beat of all time. After nearly 30 years and much debate, Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones ...