Tagged Hip Hop

Florida doesn’t have a whole lot going for it these days. If it did, there would probably be more newsworthy headlines coming out of it than the “Florida man on bath salts robs jungle gym with a balloon”-...

Hip hop producer RJD2 (real name Ramble Jon Krohn) attributes Philadelphia with the “context for a lot of soul music that had liked” and having “the same musical vocabulary” for deeper connections ...

Reflections in Real Time is an intensely personal album that attempts to make sense of the arc traced by one’s own life from the point of view of 25 year-old hip hop artist Kilo Kish, and it is excellent.  A...

Seattle should be proud of its hip hop scene. A roll call of contemporary notables would summon names like Blue Scholars, Grieves, Sadistik -- ‘conscious’ and experimental hip hop artists who proudly wear t...

With just a few stops remaining on their "Midnite Mass" tour, Canadian trio Keys N Krates led service last Thursday, February 18, at the Regency Ballroom. The idea that the "Midnite Mass" tour is supposed to "f...

Toronto-based Keys N Krates are set to make an appearance at the Regency Ballroom tomorrow, February 18, as part of their month-and-a-half long tour following the January 15 release of their latest EP, Midnite ...

Hip hop is in an interesting state right now. The rise of social media and sharing platforms, such as SoundCloud, have propelled the art to places that the original MC's breakdancing out of the South Bronx cou...

It’s a typical Thursday night under the dim incandescent lighting of the Metropolis Café basement in Union Square, New York. Androgynous dancers cast gyrating shadows over a stage split evenly among a DJ, a...

Stringing together all of the most desirable elements of Appalachian Folk, 90's Hip-Hop, Southern Soul, and World Music, Rising Appalachia had the New Parish howling (literally) for more on Friday night. ...

Vince Staples is on fire. “Wool” really showed us that. His enticing intro features a brand new flow and a much more energetic Staples than his lethargic and aimless havoc he spat on EARL (2010). His...

Fanatic fans, clouds of smoke, and brilliant performances only begin to describe J. Cole's performance at the Shoreline Amphitheatre last Tuesday night. In the Bay for a stop on his Forest Hills Drive t...

On Tuesday night at The Warfield in San Francisco, the room got dark and The Eagles were summoned, softly at first, then blasting thoroughly into the back row. After several openers including Earl Sweatshir...

700 Fill (2015) adds Harlem rap trio Ratking to the steadily growing list of artists who have embraced the “surprise album release” tactic (see Beyonce, Death Grips, etc). However, this album is set apa...

It might be hazardous to make comparisons between Future Brown and Afrofuturism, but the DJ-quartet certainly strike a similar chord. Dressed in neither sci-fi nor Egyptian garb, the producers have all mytho...

Where hip-hop and jazz meet, there is immeasurable beauty. From A Tribe Called Quest to the productions of the late Nujabes, rappers’ flows and polyrhythmic melodies seem to create some holy matrimony in ...