n July 29, 2012, a family function was born on the patio of San Francisco’s El Rio. Rapper MicahTron, who grew up in Hunters Point, struck a pose onstage in a silk bomber jacket, encouraging an ...

In a landscape where artistry often gets boxed in, Jetty Chow refuses to play by the rules. He’s not just another rapper chasing streams — he’s a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and performer whose ...

Mary J. Blige calls her latest road trek the For My Fans Tour. But know that the show — which stopped Wednesday night, March 19, at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena — is really all about Blige. And that ...

When Hip Hop meets pop, the result is often pure magic. Some of the most memorable moments in music come from when a rap verse jumps into a pop track, adding a fresh layer of attitude, energy, and ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...