Rap

How 'genres', once considered reductive in music, are undergoing tectonic shifts today

In the playlist-driven world of today, where songs are tagged and heard by mood, genres seem to be becoming increasingly irrelevant, particularly during the compositional process.

Kerby Jean-Raymond's Pyer Moss wows with couture show honoring Black inventors

Jean-Raymond said he and his team had gone through an exacting and exhaustive process to meet the demands of a couture collection.

Bro MC's, Brazil's first indigenous rap group, sing verses of resistance amid threats to their safety

People say our lyrics are harsh, but that's our reality, one of the rap group's members said.

Shah Rule on new EP Hooked, collaborating with DIVINE, and using music as a balm to pandemic wounds

"In the last one year, music has helped me get through some tough times," Shah Rule recalls how Nas' album King's Disease got him through a bout with pneumonia last year.

'Gruff, motivational, poignant fire-starter': rap legend DMX's life was a tug of war between his musical gift and traumas

Even when DMX's personal struggles threatened to overshadow his musical legacy, he never hid his hurt, never let shame overshadow his truth.

Rapper SVDP talks 'One Hundred Thousand Flowers': Why single on Sri Lankan civil war is his most important song yet

34 years after his family fled the Sri Lankan civil war, Toronto-based Tamil rapper SVDP has foregrounded the violence inflicted on his community, with Made in Jaffna, his third album.

Raja Kumari on documenting Indian culture through her music: If we don't keep passing it down, it will be a travesty

Raja Kumari talks her new track 'Bindis and Bangles,' the influence of Indian culture and classical dance, and expressing her identity through music.

Inside ‘Bombay 70’: Finding ‘asli hip-hop’ in Naezy’s neighbourhood

In conversation with the director of the documentary Bombay 70, which explored Naezy's identity, his anxieties and why he makes music

Best Indian Films 2019: Poetry and courage across languages, from Assamese to Hindi, Khasi, Malayalam and more 

2019 was a year in which small films in the Assamese and Khasi languages drew eyeballs, and the Kerala-based film industry aka Mollywood outdid itself.

In rapper Ahmer's 'apolitical' potent verses lie truths about Kashmir that must be told

Ahmer's music speaks to and for the people of Kashmir — for the people in Srinagar's Downtown, for his family members who suffered abuse and death