Jan. 27 is associated with some of hip-hop and R&B’s most memorable developments. British experimental rapper Tricky was born ...

Considering Drake's current vested interest in underselling stateside rap's potency, it's very hard to give the declaration any weight, but it also seems clear to me what he is referencing about ...

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LONDON—In a country where the combined ethnic population represents a tiny 8 percent, young black music fans have rarely been the focus of popular-music marketing. Suggested Reading The Story of ...

Ask around about British hip-hop artists, and you’ll most likely be given the Streets, Dizzee Rascal, Roots Manuva, and more recently, Wiley and M.I.A. No! From that list, the only one who could be ...

The dancers of Boy Blue, a London hip-hop dance company, move with extraordinary precision. When they hit a beat, they hit it as one. Between beats, they can seem to speed up or skip ahead, as if ...

The Nigerian act runs a Hip-hop literacy program which encourages young students to be more confident and self-expressive. Growing up in both the UK and Nigeria has influenced BREIS’ sound, which is a ...

black british music (2025), the new project from multi-hyphenate Jim Legxacy, tells the story of a U.K. rap scene overspilling its borders as it... During the second night of headlining shows at ...