It’s impossible to overlook hip-hop’s profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...

The United Nations will host the first ever Global Hip-Hop Summit in South Africa tomorrow (Oct. 20) in an effort to achieve their Millennium Development Goals. The UN’s Millennium Development Goals ...

South African filmmaker Kurt Orderson’s “Apetown,” one of 20 projects selected for this year’s CineMart, the co-production market at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, describes it as a ...

(CNN) — 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, at ...

Hip hop has come back in full force this year. In 2021, the genre huffed and puffed in its attempt to blow down the door that stood between it and mainstream relevance as amapinao once again ruled ...

Die Antwoord, the outlandish hip-hop group from South Africa, has been making music for more than a decade now — still they get asked with a certain frequency if their schtick is serious. Rappers ...

The inaugural Baobab Urban Youth Conference (BUC) will take place on Dec. 9th in Cape Town, South Africa. The event will feature a keynote address from dead prez, as well as recorded video messages ...

Renowned South African hip-hop artist, Nasty C has argued that Afrobeats and Amapiano are better genres of music than Hip-hop. He said Afrobeats and Amapiano are more “original” in terms of live ...