It was a Thursday hip-hop night, the crowd was an eclectic mix, the dance floor was buzzing with people wanting to get down and the energy of the music was flowing through all in attendance. An hour into the night,…

Hip Hop has always been a genre full of talented folks, and outside the box thinkers. This means that Hip Hop labels always had to find a way into the mainstream in creative ways. When Def Jam first started operations,…

11 Music icons Who Changed Their Names There are many artists and musicians other than ‘Rappers’ who actually changed their names prior to making it big. Their is a huge jungle of reasons why they did so but none the…

A Record Deal Nearly Destroyed My Music Career In June of 2006 I became the first musician to build a worldwide following on YouTube. I posted videos every couple of days and called it my “Virtual Summer Tour.” I played…

It Doesn’t Hurt To Be Nice, A Book by Amisha Sethi Amisha Sethi a young entrepreneur who was awarded the “Young women rising star” at World Women Leadership Congress 2014. She came out with a book named It Doesn’t Hurt To Be…

Spotify recently analyzed 20 billion tracks and gave us insight to localized listening trends for over 1,000 cities. Loyalty to a cities local artist or rapper was one of the findings. I was incredibly thrilled to see Philly still holding…

Smokey The Ghost Opens Up To DHH The artist we lately covered is Smokey The Ghost repping the south side. A part of the popular former hip-hop crew Machas With Attitude (MWA), Smokey told us all about him and his life…

Here’s All About Bangalore’s Graffiti Artist ‘The Bathroom Painter’ We present to you graffiti artist hailing from Bangalore named Shunnal Ligade, who is popularly known as ‘The Bathroom Painter”. This punk has blessed various renowned hangout joints in the city…

New York has long been the hub of Hip Hop. NY is where Hip Hop first spun out. The Big Apple is where artists like Grandmaster Flash first made impact, and impressed crowds with his unique style of DJing. The City that Never…

American Hip Hop Vs Desi Hip Hop Hip Hop is a diasporic art form that has the power to transcend racial & cultural boundaries at a global level. It is my own personal opinion that American rap is shallow in…

AKakaAmazing is funny.  He plays XBOX Live and has buddies called LiL Bl00d Sh0t, Handgun Inc, Last BuIIet, xSirNoob….  So you know this DESI’s a hood n!gga.  Check out his latest episode of “Living in MY Fam 4.3” giving you a glimpse into his…

To The Culture – Hip Hop is the Knowledge, Hip Hop is the Movement To The Culture is a Hip Hop Movement started in Mumbai, India by some group of peoples. As they said Hip Hop Culture is growing in…