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Hip-hop

May 2024

  • Kamasi Washington

    Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement review – the sax star dials up the tempos

    Input from George Clinton, André 3000 and Washington’s toddler daughter feature on his virtuosic, richly varied latest
  • Tanaka Bingwa and Gabija Čepelytė in Cycles by Boy Blue at the Barbican theatre.

    Boy Blue: Cycles review – dazzling hip-hop dance alchemy

    In ragged rocksteps and snaredrum springs, choreographer Kenrick Sandy and composer Michael Asante catch the connections between sound and movement
  • Drake & Kendrick Lamar

    ‘You a scam artist’: the most brutal moments in Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track

    The long-awaited rebuttal to Drake has arrived: Euphoria, a track in which Lamar dismantles Drake’s street credibility. But why use misogyny and homophobia to do it?

April 2024

  • Eminem appearing at the NFL Draft this week.

    ‘It was only a matter of time for Slim’: Eminem to kill off Slim Shady alter ego on new album

  • Nas<br>American rapper and actor Nas, London, circa 2000. (Photo by David Tonge/Getty Images)

    Ranked
    Furious, funny and potentially fatal: hip-hop’s 20 greatest diss tracks – ranked!

  • Tupac Shakur pictured in 1996.

    Estate of Tupac Shakur threatens legal action against Drake over AI diss track

  • A man and two children sit on a wall with a wall of speakers to their left

    Young researchers need greater access to Britain’s rich archives, says curator

  • ‘Reagan gave us something to rap about’: how hip-hop has interacted with US politics

  • How we made
    ‘We have to have graffiti!’ How we made the Breakin’ Convention hip-hop dance festival

  • ‘A lot of rich guys arguing’: inside the rap beef of the decade with Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more

  • George the Poet: ‘Poetry is the artistic wing of politics’

  • Kanye West suspected of attacking man who allegedly sexually assaulted his wife

  • Rico Wade, key figure in Atlanta hip-hop scene, dies aged 52

  • What do you call rapper J Cole apologising to Kendrick Lamar? A modern business masterclass

    Nels Abbey
  • Bait, ting, certi: how UK rap changed the language of the nation

  • Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs named in lawsuit accusing his son of sexual assault

  • ‘We answer to nobody’: duo Bob Vylan on humility, hell-raising – and punk hypocrisy

  • The Diddy raid reminds us that it’s never too late for alleged victims to be heard

    Tayo Bero
  • Kanye’s back – labels might care about his misdeeds, but the public doesn’t seem to

    Shaad D'Souza

March 2024

  • Ghetts on stage.

    Ghetts review – a founding father of grime commands the stage

    The British rapper showcases his fourth album with a bravura display of old-school brio and and late-career earnestness
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