Hip-hop began in 1973 Bronx as a voice against racism and inequality, rooted in DJing, rapping, dance, and graffiti. It later ...

Hip-hop and rap music, rooted in the streets of New York in the 1970s, found their way to India decades later, carving out a distinct voice of rebellion, identity, and storytelling. While Bollywood ...

Over the last few years, underground Indian hip-hop has become bold and assertive, deviating away from the party anthems that have dominated and driven the genre towards the mainstream. The genre is ...

“I feel fucking inspired,” a man screamed in my face during Divine’s performance at the sold-out Mumbai leg of his 2021 Punya Paap tour. “This guy is a fucking king. He has changed the face of the ...

Raja Kumari was not born in New Delhi or Mumbai or Kolkata — rather, 8,000 miles away, in Claremont, California. But Kumari and her record label have a huge ambition this year: to smash down doors for ...

Ahmer Javaid (left) and Arif Farooq alias Qafilah (right) are among the rappers making up the hip-hop community of Kashmir. Credit: Najmus Saqib They may look like any other group of young men ...

With Travis Scott set to bring his stadium-filling CIRCUS MAXIMUS tour to India and Playboi Carti leading the charge at Lollapalooza India 2026, Indian hip-hop fans are in for a treat Along with ...

This month, a documentary about Mumbai rapper Divine (a.k.a. Vivian Fernandes), one of the most-streamed Indian independent artists on Spotify, aired not just on Red Bull TV but also Discovery, which ...

NEW DELHI, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The hip-hop artist Arivu was in his final year of engineering college when it hit home that he was a Dalit — one of the "untouchables" in India’s ...

Lollapalooza India returns for its fourth edition on January 24–25, 2026, once again taking over Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi Racecourse. But this time, there’s a clear shift in the spotlight — hip-hop, in all ...

Amer Ahmed, a longtime board member at the Hip Hop Congress, found the concept of American Indian hip-hop strikingly unfamiliar. Last November, Ahmed, director of intercultural affairs at Concordia ...