Tagged Hip Hop

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 ...

Last Friday, Drake delivered one of the most successful online music debuts in recent cyberhistory. A 17-track mixtape, typically a free gimmick used as promotion for an upcoming project such as an EP or st...

George Watsky, born and raised in San Francisco, made sure to pull "out all the stops" to give Bay Area fans two very special performances at the Regency Ballroom last weekend. Because the shows were be...

Known for his fast rapping, George Watsky started out as one of the most prominent teen poets in the Bay Area, having won the Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam back in 2006. Now he is on his latest worl...

A 21-year-old Los Angeles native living a coveted double life, Henry Steinway stars in Void as RL Grime. (His other project moniker? Clockwork.) And it would seem that with the release of this debut record vi...

Flatbush Zombies will be the first to tell you that they haven’t got their big break yet. But they still know how to party. On Tuesday, November 4, the Zombies of Brooklyn sold out the Metro Operahouse in ...

Everybody loves a good buddy-cop duo, it’s a well-established fact in our modern society -- Starsky and Hutch, Riggs and Murtaugh, Turner and Hooch, you name it and the public eats it up. The allure of a ...

This past Tuesday, the crowd at one of San Francisco's most iconic theaters prepared for a night of Brooklyn's finest. The sold-out show was a part of Joey Bada$$'s B4DA$$ tour to promote his next album....

Flying Lotus’s new album You’re Dead! arrives amidst huge anticipation culminating with the release of two singles, one of which features the current standard of rap, Kendrick Lamar. Confirmed rumors th...

"Are the beach balls the only thing that make this feel like a festival?" William Benssussen (otherwise known as The Gaslamp Killer) confronted the crowd Saturday night at the third annual Summersalt Festiv...

Scott Mescudi as Kid Cudi has been pushing boundaries since the launch of his six-year Man on the Moon series, but with last week’s surprise 10-track album, the Cleveland astro-rapper has reached a new altit...

There are far too many DJs in this world, but DJ Rashad's Double Cup is worth sharing, doubly much. The Chicago-based producer has just released his second album on London's Hyperdub, the dubstep label resp...

Even if you’re not an everyday fan of the almighty Slim Shady, you might want to take a moment to indulge in a new spin on the Marshall Mathers experience. The sequel to Eminem’s third studio effort and h...

Flatbush Zombies. Photo by Loren Wohl Tuesdays are rough for me. I have class pretty much straight from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. So when I stumbled off the bus in Oakland October 29, I was wondering if I’d be a...