In the hip-hop genre, it’s incredibly common for rappers to pursue business ventures. Just look at Jay-Z, who became the industry’s first billionaire thanks not only to his music but also to his ...

Xaviersobased, Nino Paid, Lazer Dim 700, and more reflect on how In The Booth and Song Wars created a new, more crowdsourced vision of rap in just over a year. From its inception in May 2024 through ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, an ongoing KQED series about Bay Area hip-hop history. A-Wax had just gotten out of jail when he decided to hit up a hotel party in Concord. The ...

Jay-Z once famously rapped, “30 is the new 20.” On the Dr. Dre-produced “30 Something,” the line was partly Jay grappling with aging in a young man’s game and partly a rationale for being 36 and still ...

If you had to bring AR Rahman, RD Burman and the Nightingale of Goa Lorna Cordeiro together on a hip-hop album, you’d need some kind of divine intervention. Vivian Fernandes aka Divine does it quite ...