Baauer, whose real name is Harry Rodrigues, is a Brooklyn-based producer known for "trap" music, an electronic style that draws on hip-hop beats.
Even when Ed Sheeran incorporates hip-hop beats and discusses teenage pregnancy and homelessness, he does so with the sympathetic patter of a mate down the pub.
During the past decade, Gillis has built a highly orignal body of work five albums and more than a thousand live performances that meticulously matches rock, pop and hip hop beats with verses and hooks from Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Radiohead, Adele and other radio favorites.
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We've been talking about hip-hop and along with the beats it's all about the words.
The Baths met at university in London when Anjula went to a party where Ranj was deejaying, mixing bhangra beats with hip-hop.
We learned of ordinary people who organized relief teams to respond to a cyclone, and heard the voices of students and the beats of hip-hop artists projecting the sound of freedom.
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Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
"I started one of the country's first hip-hop therapy programs, " said Alvarez, who co-founded Beats Rhymes and Life, a nonprofit that provides free counseling sessions to Bay Area youth.
And with help from West, Blue Collar is full of big, hooky beats with soul samples and rippling guitars, as well as some less typical hip-hop fair.
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