"From Memphis rap to Manchester post-punk and Laurel Canyon-worthy beauty, a new generation is coming this way"

>"Hip-hop DJ culture provides a rich site for exploring how culture and industry can converge and collaborate, as well as how they need each other to move _...Read More_

>"Sue Kwon photographed the artists whose music would go on to change the world."

>"The Detroit musician wasn’t known to give many interviews, and his influence has grown exponentially since his 2006 death. “Dilla Time” by Dan Charnas explores what drove him."

"In 2020, a twenty-two-year-old rapper from Baton Rouge brought in nearly as much streaming revenue as Taylor Swift did. Why haven’t most people heard of him?"

>"Never mind “owning the libs.” The meme rapper pushed one button and the right did his publicity for him."

"DMX was the biggest rapper on the planet at the turn of century"

>"The rapper’s “Whole Lotta Red” was largely unreviewed by the music press (though it led to a Twitter hubbub), and was streamed 126 million times in its _...Read More_

The 23-year-old artist from Coventry has broken through to mainstream success. 

"Taco Hemingway became one of his country’s biggest rappers with tracks about partying. This summer, his focus changed and so did the kind of attention he got."

Pop duo Lime Cordiale, one-man band Tame Impala and hip-hop powerhouse Sampa the Great are set for a promising awards season, with each raking in multiple Aria nominations in a year that has been anything but ordinary. The music industry _...Read More_

Hip hop culture has a history of going against the grain, but it eventually came to dominate not only mainstream popular music, but the world of high-fashion as well.