insider.si.edu

Indigenous Hip-Hop and Beyond with Brothers Spencer Battiest and Doc Native

Any descriptive label intended to encompass the talents of brother duo Spencer Battiest and Doc Native falls short. Although they produced and performed at a concert called “First Beats: Indigenous ...
AOL

Indio native Amadeus’ rap career takes off, and he dreams of a spot on Coachella stage

Amadeus, a 26-year-old rapper from Indio, is so committed to his artistry, he's asked The Desert Sun to not publish his birth name. It probably wouldn't be hard to figure out, sifting through old ...
Oregonian

For Native hip-hop artist, music serves as an outlet for cultural connection and social justice

This story originally appeared on Underscore.news and is co-published by Underscore.news and ICT, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. Funding is provided in ...
inforum

Spirit Lake rapper amplifies voices of Native youth

FARGO — Stuart James, a hip-hop artist from the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, raps about important issues that affect Native communities. The 30-year-old started off as a shy kid. Though he ...
inforum

Rapping out of the box: American Indian artists join in hip-hop event

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 ...

Wilmington native and ‘first lady of hip-hop’ headed to NC Music Hall of Fame

MC Sha-Rock, a Wilmington native known as the “first lady of hip-hop,” will be inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame.
MPR News

Speaking with a bigger voice: Minneapolis rapper works to amplify Native voices in the hip-hop industry

Hip-hop artist Eldayshun Big Bear, known as Day Dayz, is one of the first artists represented by the Dream Warriors Indigenous artist collective. He is seen on Feb. 17 in Onamia. When it comes to ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota's native rap scene profiled in Vice's new Apple Music series

A rather bright national spotlight has finally been cast on Minnesota's booming American Indian hip-hop scene. Vice Media and Apple Music have teamed up to create an ambitious new documentary series ...

Ohio Valley native, Rap artist, hosting First Friday’s in Wheeling

An Ohio Valley native is coming to Wheeling and will be hosting First Friday’s. Wheeling native, Joshua Heatherington also ...
WAPT

Jackson native Courtland Liddell wins Grammy for mixing gospel rap song

16 WAPT'S CRYSTAL HAS MORE ON HIS JOURNEY AND HOW THIS ALL CAME TO BE. NAT TRACK JACKSON NATIVE, COURTLAND LIDDELL SHARES HIS EXCITEMENT AFTER WINNING HIS FIRST GRAMMY AS A MIXING ENGINEER. SOT ...
insider.si.edu

Native tongues : an African hip-hop reader / edited by P. Khalil Saucier

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...