Category : Music

Delaware Art Museum celebrates hip hop culture in summit

The Delaware Art Museum celebrates hip hop’s role in defining American culture with its 2nd Annual Hip Hop Cultural Summit. From its roots in inner-city neighborhoods, hip hop culture has grown into a multi-billion dollar entertainment juggernaut. I...

Search is on for Joburg’s next kwaito, hip-hop, dance, drama and poetry sensation

The City of Johannesburg invites visual and performing artists to audition for this year’s talent search initiative. South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a...

Drake birthday: A timeline of the rapper’s beef with Kendrick Lamar

Your support helps us to tell the story This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support a...

Hit-Boy Reveals Big Hit Has Returned To Prison In Heartfelt Post

Hit-Boy has confirmed that his father and collaborator, Big Hit, has been sent to prison. On Wednesday (Oct. 23), the Grammy award-winning producer took to Instagram, where he posted a heartfelt message to his followers about his dad. Sharing a...

Fresno County taking tougher stance on graffiti, vacant buildings

FRESNO COUNTY – Supervisor Steve Brandau has taken a step closer to cleaning up Fresno County. At a prior Board meeting, Brandau introduced two countywide resolutions. The first had to do with abandoned buildings; the second, with graffiti. At that...

Hit Boy Reveals His Dad Big Hit Is Back In Jail

Hit Boy has revealed that his father Big Hit is already back in jail, just a year after he was released followingly a lengthy stint behind bars. Big Hit, 52, has spent much of the last 30 years in prison for various crimes before he was freed in May...

Banksy prints, notes, and burner phones: The anonymous artist’s former agent is saying goodbye to his archive

Banksy prints, handwritten notes, a pair of trainers – and even a collection of “burner phones” – are among scores of items set to be auctioned from “the most definitive archive” of his early work. Steve Lazarides,...

New Children’s Book Series Explores the Roots of Hip Hop with Easy A.D. of the Legendary Cold Crush Brothers

The Source |Today In Hip Hop History: Onyx Dropped Their Second LP ‘All We Got Iz Us’ 29 Years Ago

On this date in 1995, Queens legends Onyx released their second full-length album All We Got Iz Us under Rush Associated Labels and the JMJ Records imprint. It is reported that Def Jam Records’ Lyor Cohen offered Fredro Starr $1 million in 1994 to...

Barry McGee’s latest SF exhibition, and how he turns street trash into art

Twist, P.Kin, Lydia Fong — those names probably ring a bell if you love graffiti art. And they’re all monikers of Barry McGee. Back in the 1990s, Barry was part of a group of young, San Francisco artists inspired by the urban culture of The Mission...

New Venus fly trap mural coming to this ‘eyesore’ of a Burnaby overpass

A new mural of terrariums full of Venus fly traps, ferns and succulents will be coming to Burnaby’s Kensington overpass. City council approved $7,000 at a council meeting this week for a mural by local artist Ela Maftei in order to beautify communit...

Megan Thee Stallion Reveals Tracklist for ‘Megan: Act II’

Megan Thee Stallion is set to release the deluxe edition of her album, Megan: Act II. The release hits Friday, with Thee Stallion unveiling the tracklist to fans. The new edition will add 12 songs and feature features from FLo Milli, Spiritbox, and...

Yeat Unveils “GO2WORK” Music Video Featuring Summrs

Rising rap star Yeat has released the official music video for “GO2WORK,” featuring Summrs, a standout track from his fifth studio album LYFESTYLE. The video, directed by Jack Rottier and Alex Edep, brings the two collaborators back together, switch...

Talking Walls: What Graffiti Should be Saved?

These days, town halls tend to equate unsanctioned graffiti with vandalism, identifying it as a costly “problem” or eyesore. All too often local administrations prioritize the quick removal of graffiti, following the lead of the now defunct broken wi...

American Graffiti

Caitlin Cook studied art history in college, and now, as a touring standup comedian and musician, she spends a lot of time in public restrooms. Through that lens on her surroundings, Cook noticed and took pictures of bathroom stall graffiti some yea...