It’s a nation of billions, but China’s rappers hold back
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The rapper Kirby Lee is trying to define his flow, his style, what makes his music stand out from hip-hop’s global shout of ghetto ambition. “Lyrically, we ain’t no gangstas,” he explains. “We don’t talk about violence or guns. […]

DJ Rekha’s grooves are multicultural mix
By Siddhartha MitterGlobe Correspondent / January 30, 2008NEW YORK - She’s as conversant in the arcana of classic, early-’90s hip-hop as she is in the folk music of her family’s native Punjab, India. Spinning on her turntables today, you might find Bollywood anthems, baile funk from Brazil, or neo-Balkan brass-band […]

By ANITA POWELL – 15 hours agoADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — In a former life, Emmanuel Jal turned a gun against his government as a conscripted rebel soldier in his native Sudan.These days, the 28-year-old is a hip-hop artist who gave up his machine gun for a microphone, but keeps his aim on the Sudanese […]

BEIRUT: In the 1980s, hip hop exploded onto the world music scene like a heat-seeking missile. Groups like Public Enemy spat poetic political activism into the formerly apolitical "party music" of their predecessors. In doing so, they gave America’s black, poverty-stricken and racially oppressed underclass much more than entertainment.
"Fight the Power," "Don’t Believe the Hype," […]

VietNamNet Bridge – Impassioned with hip-hop, young ‘break boys’ are willing to pay for overseas trips just for the chance to meet international hip-hop stars. Spreading the love The pioneer for “Hip-hop exchange” at the regional and world levels is the “Big Toe” hip-hop troupe. As one of the first hip-hop groups in Vietnam, Big Toe currently […]

New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS21 January 2008 Posted to the web 22 January 2008
By Jude KatendeKampala MANY local music pundits have labeled hip-hop a dead genre in Uganda. However, the big turn up of youths at Lugogo indoor stadium last Friday challenged this notion.
In a bid to support the genre, MTN Uganda has started the anual […]

Nomadic Wax
Proctor Academy MLK Celebration

This is the first page I’ve created that features only photographs from inside the Norris Theater. While living in the west African country of Senegal, Ben Herson became intrigued with the use of rap music to promote polital and social change, a phenomenon that propelled the election of Abdoulaye Wade in […]

After setting up shop in a mobile rig for three months, producer Ben Herson returned to New York with some of the hottest underground sounds from Senegal’s up-and-coming and established hip-hop music makers. Three years later, the result, African Underground – Depths of Dakar, makes a good argument for RV-style hip-hop. In French, Wolof and […]

PARK CITY, Utah (AFP) — Palestinian hip hop group DAM, which has spawned a cult following and a small army of imitators, was featured here in a new film at the Sundance Film Festival on the emerging Middle East music scene."Slingshot Hip Hop" by director Jackie Salloum offers a peek into contemporary life in Israel, […]

NEWS19 January 2008 Posted to the web 20 January 2008
By Tim Kamuzu BandaNairobi The pool of hip-hop artistes in Kenya barely grows. In fact, for a long time, it has always been Abbas, Mwafrika, Kantai and a few other names that have consistently featured.
And this is despite the fact that the genre has one […]