Handle with care cook up

This week, you guys are sampling something you shouldn't touch with your bare hands. It comes with high-tension snaps that cut through a mix better than a diamond blade.

It’s sharp, it’s fragile, and it’s probably going to break your beat—in a good way. Wink wink.

Warning: No safety goggles required for the cook-up, (but Chunkz Kitchen aprons are available) I will recommend a heavy-duty limiter. These transients aren't here to make friends.

Black history fact of the week coming at you.

While the Roland TR-808 was initially a commercial "failure" because it sounded "unrealistic," it was Black producers in the early 80s who saw the potential. Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force released "Planet Rock" in 1982, effectively turning a "toy" drum machine into the foundation of Hip Hop, Trap, and Pop.