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, ...

AKA, South Africa’s most recognisable name in hip-hop, was gunned down – with his friend, celebrity chef Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane – outside a restaurant along Durban’s popular night spot Florida Road ...

When you think of ballet, classical music like Mozart or Beethoven probably come to mind, but what happens when you throw in some hip-hop? You get something called Hiplet. A performance of the cool ...

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 first, ...

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 ...

"The South got something to say." When Andre 3000 said these now famous words as his Atlanta-based duo Outkast picked up a rap award in 1995, it was one of many defining moments of America's hip-hop ...