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The women who got the hip hopping to their tune
Hip-hop turns 50 this year and to celebrate this milestone we look at women pioneers in this male-dominated musical subculture
The lives of Riky Rick and HHP reveal hip-hop’s hard-knock mentality
Not only is this Mental Health Awareness Month, it also marks four years since we lost HHP to suicide. Shingai Darangwa looks at the effects of the hip-hop mentality
The evolution of amapiano
Sound that has taken the world by storm is in danger of dying out in a lacklustre industry
Rapper gives reason to ‘flashy’ SA hip-hop
Many are not convinced by the boom in SA hip-hop, saying it’s become too commercial. But SA rapper Reason explains it’s a just reflection of society.
Politics as usual for Ludacris, but Obama not impressed
Ludacris’s new song, Politics as Usual, may have cost him one of his biggest fans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.