In honor of African-American Music Month, one writer examines how Atlanta beats are influencing future Motherland sounds. It’s Saturday night in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg, South Africa.

In recent years, Afrobeats has gotten unprecedented attention. This has made the genre a highly coveted one as international acts are now interested in sampling the sound. Even more interesting is the ...

Afro-Trap, the diasporic genre nobody really has a proper name for (some call it Afro Bashment), is the dominant sound of young London right now. Its refreshing mix of dancehall, rap, grime, and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. MHD is one of the biggest names in French rap. The Parisian, real name Mohamed Sylla, is celebrated for ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. MHD's video for his global hit, "Afro Trap Pt. 9 (Faut les wet)," premieres today ...

Musicians treasure creative freedom, and in interviews, it’s not uncommon for them to voice a warning: “Don’t put my art in a box.” But MHD, the platinum-selling French rapper of Senegalese and ...

MHD, a rapper from Paris, is pioneering a new genre of hip-hop, Afro Trap, blending trap music from the southern US with Afrobeat music, reflecting his Senegalese and Guinean heritage. MHD grew up in ...

Afro-Trap sensation Sosoboy Fosho has officially launched his long-awaited EP, Pink Roses, under Asanda Empires, marking a bold new chapter in his career. The project fuses high-energy beats with ...

French rapper MHD was sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of a 2018 gang-related murder. The “afro trap” rapper born Mohamed Sylla was one of nine men charged in the killing of 23 ...

Young British-Nigerian rapper, Sammie Cash, is on a mission to introduce trap music, a subgenre of the American hip-hop music that gained prominence in the 2010s. He calls his own afro-trap, a blend ...