Tagged Hip Hop

In an interview with Melody Maker magazine, Jimi Hendrix once said, “Anyone can go round shaking babies by the hand and kissing the mothers, and saying that it was groovy. But you see, you can't do this in ...

After a week of Drake dropping hints about playing the rapidly growing PVP shooter Fortnite with renowned Twitch streamer Ninja, he finally hopped on a stream last night to play alongside one of the world’s b...

Vince Staples could not have dropped this new track at a more opportune time. The Long Beach native has always been a controversial figure, often taking to Twitter to argue with and/or roast people who disagree...

Brockhampton’s March 3rd and 4th shows at The Warfield for their Love Your Parents Tour marks my 5th and 6th time seeing them as a group. How much America’s favorite boyband has blown up since I first saw K...

The Independent is a hip and intimate venue nestled between the Lower Haight and Anza Vista. The lineup for the evening was to be MAYDAY and Dead Prez. MAYDAY is a rising hip-hop duo from Miami, consisting of r...

A weekly Wednesday night event in a seedy pocket of East Los Angeles, Low End Theory has always been cooler than it should have been: with better-than-thou fashionable attendees despite its un-instagrammable ae...

The highly anticipated conclusion to the trilogy of albums that has springboarded American boyband BROCKHAMPTON into the eyes and ears of the public is finally here. The finale, SATURATION III, has all the char...

The first time I ever became aware of Jaden Smith’s existence was when I watched Pursuit of Happyness (2006), starring him and Will Smith, for the first time as a child. I encountered him again in The Karate ...

TW: Domestic Violence While I was scrolling through Spotify’s New Releases page the other day, I noticed that Chris Brown had come out with a new album, Heartbreak on a Full Moon (2017). I honestly didn’...

There’s pop, there’s electronic, there’s hip-hop, there’s reggae, and then there’s Quinn XCII, who somehow can effortlessly combine all of those four into his own unexpected, exciting, vibrant sound. ...

Four years ago, I was still in high school, and tickets to FYF FEST were only 100 bucks. FYF was the first music festival I ever attended and I went with a group of friends and my brother, Joe. On the second da...

A$AP Mob shut down Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Wednesday night. In support of their most recent album, Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy (2017), the A$AP Mob’s Too Cozy Tour touched down in San Francisco. They ...

  Do you have a yearning for lyrical ingenuity, cutting sarcasm, and witty humor in your music? If yes, then get excited because The Palmer Squares are on tour, an underground rap duo from C...

The London-based electronic music duo Snakehips brought their good vibes to the Fox Theatre on Tuesday night for the fifth show on their All Stars Tour. Snakehips has been making waves in the electronic/hip-hop...

A$AP Mob is making a stop in San Francisco at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Wednesday, October 25th for their Too Cozy tour. A$AP Mob is a hip hop collective from Harlem, formed in 2007. They are touri...