AUSTIN (KXAN)— Bryon Chambers was 16 years old when he snuck into a club where the first South by Southwest (SXSW) hip-hop showcase was happening 35 years ago. “That’s a funny story,” Chambers said ...

Hip-hop history is coming home to Wilmington. This spring, hip-hop pioneer and Wilmington native Sharon Jackson, known as MC Sha-Rock — she's considered to be the first female rapper — will be honored ...

Any descriptive label intended to encompass the talents of brother duo Spencer Battiest and Doc Native falls short. Although they produced and performed at a concert called “First Beats: Indigenous ...

Tufawon says Minneapolis is being used as a testing ground, but the people are building a blueprint of coalition, mutual aid, ...

A hip-hop artist, who also works as a prevention counselor at a city high school, is on a tour for his fifth book.“You are a ...

A Native American musician will blend history with hip-hop at UW-La Crosse. Supaman, a Native American hip-hop artist, hits the stage at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, in the Bluffs, Student Union, 521 East ...

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...

When everyone finally came together in the studio and the music started happening, Laurie Sargent had to step away for a moment. The idea of memorializing her late partner by mentoring emerging Native ...