Two of Afrobeats’ most popular exports are featured on what is perhaps hip-hop’s most highly anticipated album of the year
Milk + Cookies Music Week returns to South Africa, thus cementing its status as more than a festival through its commitment to local talent and economic support.
Veteran rappers are thriving, releasing acclaimed albums and winning Grammys, showing hip-hop grows with its artists and fans alike
For years, Lupe Fiasco’s music lived softly in my mind – a hum of resistance, a reminder of truth. Then, under Joburg’s stormy sky, I finally stood before the man who wields…
When Rapsody finally came to South Africa to record her latest album, something deeply meaningful and long-awaited took shape.
Kendrick Lamar’s win over Drake shows the resurgence of an illiberal racial mood in America
Halled over the coals: Rapper Macklemore’s track Hind’s Hall, which criticises Israel’s war, has gone viral.
Hip-hop turns 50 this year and to celebrate this milestone we look at women pioneers in this male-dominated musical subculture
The only rapper to give a masterclass in hip-hop storytelling, Nasir Jones is one of the best rappers of all time
Gun violence claims the life of yet another of hip-hop’s ascendant stars
Standing on the shoulders of hip-hop giants like HHP, Pro and Skwatta, the new generation of Mzansi rappers is changing the genre’s lexicon
DBN Gogo, Blxckie and ByLwansta are headliners at the return of this iconic event
Jabba’s Back To The City performance in 2016 was a late-career triumph for the visionary MC, but its promise would prove elusive
For a man to whom music was a mission, the local industry ultimately proved too narrow
Monster hits and expressive deep cuts from HHP’s extensive catalog, ranked from best to very good by Sabeo Mkhabela
Jabba was an an innovator who paved a lane and nurtured a genre, but he only ever wanted to be a Maftown hero
Sabelo Mkhabela, a ‘writer who can take photos’ tells us about the image he took of American rapper Joey Bada$$ at Oppikoppi in 2017
The elusive rapper’s recent confounding and reluctant releases are rap as liberation theology
Mx Blouse talks about their sonic influences and how these fused together to shape their debut album, ‘Elementality’
The Xhosa rapper’s journey to making his first album drew on his family’s indentity
