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Space jam: from cosmic jazz to extraterrestrial hip hop

Five of the most iconic, other-worldly and plain freaky concept albums with space themes

4 min read9 Nov 2018
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Gully Fest: Celebrating the streets

A new one-day music festival in Mumbai showcases the best of Indian hip-hop culture

1 min read21 Sep 2018
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How Dharavi found its groove

An underground hip-hop movement had been brewing on the streets of Asia's second-largest slum for a few years. In 2018, its moment has arrived

18 min read30 Jul 2018
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Hip-Hop’s original street poets make a comeback

The Last Poets, who laid the foundations of Hip-Hop with their revolutionary albums in the early 70s, are back with a new album 'Understand What Black Is'

4 min read9 Jun 2018
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Rapper cupcakKe is storming hip-hop’s male-controlled bastion

She's 20; she's sharp; she's witty; and her ultra-bold lyrics can make the raunchiest male rappers run for cover

4 min read30 Mar 2018
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1990s: The decade of Indipop

Ten memorable moments in Nineties Indipop, from crank calls to ambiguous music videos

4 min read2 Jun 2017
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Meet Bombay Bassment —the first Indian hip-hop act to play at Glastonbury

This is a dream that arrived much earlier than we ever imagined, they say

4 min read20 Jun 2016
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Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk lose copyright case

The ruling acknowledges the essential place that the practice of sampling has in hip-hop genre, gives artists freedom to use small segments from recorded tunes

2 min read31 May 2016
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China’s PLA releases first hip-hop music video to attract youths

The song, 'Battle Declaration', caters to the taste of young people and the lyrics hide neither combativeness nor a desire to fight

2 min read3 May 2016
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Honey Singh is not hip hop

Indian rappers stir up stories and local issues, from Dalgate in Srinagar to Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra

8 min read13 Mar 2016
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