Hip Hop

From his Illustration EP, Jono Das introduces 'Ten Things' Audio

Auckland two-piece Heavy, have had a busy 12 months. From bedroom demos and D.I.Y. festivals to releasing their debut album Lock In and performing at St. Jerome's Laneway Festival. Zac Arnold picks… Audio

Gareth Murphy's Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry, charts the difficult relationship between the artists, technology and the 'record men' for the last 160 years. Trevor… Audio

Marcus Garvey, Louis Armstrong, Puffy Daddy… The New York neighbourhood of Harlem has long been home to seminal African-American leaders and trendsetters. Most recently A$AP Mob, the collective that… Audio

University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke raps about hip hop music and culture. Latin hip hop. Audio

GQ and JQ make up Chicago's Q Brothers, whose award-winning hip hop adaptations of Shakespeare have toured the globe. They also run workshops for kids, in which participants work with an existing… Audio

University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke raps about hip hop music and culture... how important is breakdancing to hip hop? Audio

Since 2012, Auckland's Addison Chase has been releasing free-jazz informed beat music through his C O S M I C C O M P O S I T I O N S Soundcloud and Bandcamp pages. Mid-2014, his music caught the… Audio

Run the Jewels - the critically lauded rap duo of Atlanta, Georgia consisting of native Killer Mike and Brooklyn-born and bred MC/producer El-P - is a project only two years deep, but their respective… Audio

Angelo King and Jono Das, introducing their collaboration The Lion And The Lotus Audio

Enthomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke discusses attemps to fuse Hip Hop with Classical music. Audio

Arcee, with her song The Cool Zone, from the EP of the same name. Audio

Lauren Dunningham, aka B-girl Legend, and Jody Stewart, aka B-girl Nossy, know a thing or two about battling it out on the dance floor. Their dance style of choice is "breaking", or breakdancing and… Audio

Hailing from Wellington, Jay Knight is an upcoming beatmaker affiliated with the Young, Gifted and Broke collective who has just released his debut album, 19/94. Aleyna Martinez catches up with the… Audio

University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke raps about hip hop music and culture. What is a 'dis' and why does hip hop have them? Audio

Troupe instigator Billie Jordan on why dancing is important to a community and the challenges one faces when taking a group of senior citizens to compete at the World Hip Hop Dance Champs. Audio

Highlights from a live performance by pioneering hip-ho group Arrested Development, and a live performance from La Chiva Gantiva, a seven-piece band formed in Brussels by a collection of expat… Audio