Brent Faiyaz's album, Icon, tops the R&B charts, while its songs "Have To.," "Butterflies," "Wrong Faces," and more make the Hot R&B Songs chart.

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...