Multi-award-winning rapper Nasty C made headlines after he went down in the history books of South African music with his ...

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many ...

Slick Rick continues to set blueprints with the release his first album in 26 years, ‘Victory,’ a cinematic visual work that ...

Music executive Nota Baloyi ruffled feathers when he dragged musician Usimamane after he made South African Hip Hop history ...

Co-presented with the French Cultural Centre and part of the North Shore Jazz Series of the Vancouver International Jazz ...

The label announced a flagship roster of artists including established hip hop acts Cassper Nyovest, Nasty C, Nadia Nakai and Boity (South Africa) and Nigerian Afrobeats act Larry Gaaga.

What's missing If hip-hop culture can be such a positive force in the dynamics of education, why is it not commonplace to find such an ethos embedded within academia in Europe and Africa?

But it has deep Jamaican and African roots, which can be seen in the rawness of its beats and the rhythm of its lyrics. Some of the first pioneers of hip hop were from the Caribbean and brought ...