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The upcoming season will celebrate the 30th anniversary of key Memphis rap albums released in 1995. These include titles from internationally recognized artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8Ball & MJG ...
Where is the music which represents that? Well, it does exist, of course, but you won’t see it on the BRIT Awards. In the mid-2010s, something amazing began to happen in American hip hop. Much of this ...
Dallas rapper BigXthaPlug came up as a regional underground rapper. He’s not that anymore. BigX has been rapping since the late ’00s, and he’s been on this website’s radar since 2022, when his twangy ...
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Rags to Rap: The Asif Balli story
Over years of hard work, Asif slowly built up his reputation from scratch as an artist. At the same time, his five-year-old ...
Today marks 15 years since Nigeria lost the remarkable rapper Da Grin. Da Grin's legacy shines in the enduring success of ...
From underground parties in the Bronx to dominating today’s Billboard charts, hip hop’s journey has been nothing short of ...
For fans of Mid-Atlantic street music, a word that’s growing in notoriety is bip. As he caught more ears in underground rap ...
Hailing from the oft-overlooked Pittsburgh, Wiz came into the rap game on ... that underground, that discovery stage, and a lot of fun stuff happened to our music. So it created a lot of good ...
Rapper MIKE performed at local venue The Black Cat, joined by openers Sideshow, Niontay, and Semiratruth. Howard students ...
Described by LA Weekly as “L.A.’s subterranean Bonnie and Clyde, inhabiting new worlds of underground hip hop,” the indigenous ... the natural ease with which Lightning sang along with rap songs on ...
He was buzzing underground and we know mostly the ... I paint the picture with the music. On Deeper Than Rap, doing ‘Face’ and finally being able to get Trina on a track… It was just ...
With roiling rhythms and Atlas-shouldered basslines, Chicago house veteran Jamal Moss’ new album aims to give dancefloor ...