With 50 years of hip-hop being celebrated over the last 10 months, it's only right to highlight 50 of the greatest hip-hop beats...Check out 50 of the greatest hip-hop beats, in no particular order, below.

I don’t wanna just find a couple beats on my computer and like, “Here you guys go.”...Maybe, two-and-a-half sessions it took me to complete 40 beats for the [Freshmen] to choose from.

Wayne previously rapped over one of Wheezy's beats for the Gucci Mane collaboration song "Oh Lord," which was featured on The...He put a call out to Wheezy to send him some beats.

whose latter part of his moniker means Outta Texas, have embraced the style of hard-hitting lyrical cadences over bass-heavy beats

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Pop Smoke's producer, Rico Beats, recently claimed in a series of text messages that the late Brooklyn rapper wouldn't have "approved...Initially, the fan was hoping more music was in the works, but Rico Beats said there is no music left to be released.

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He even does his own freestyles over beats like the one DJ Premier produced for Nas' "N.Y. State of Mind."

of spring with the drop We Don't Trust You, a 17-song effort that blends the rapper's traptastic rhymes and Metro's booming beats