In late 2024, Mumbai/Pune rapper Shreyas Sagvekar received a call from a French friend, who was visiting Dubai. The friend had gone out clubbing the night before and heard a track playing over the PA ...

Turn the volume up. India is in the middle of an epic hip-hop takeover. The music – in English and regional languages – was among the top four most-streamed genres in the country, with 490 billion ...

Daiaphi Lamare, better known as Reble, is emerging as one of Indian hip-hop's brightest new stars. Hailing from Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills, she has captured attention with her commanding ...

An elegiac retelling of rap’s origins, Hip-Hop Is History also ends with a sense of hope. Buffy (Darren Robinson) of the Fat Boys in Chicago, 1985. This Juneteenth featured, among other festivities, a ...