This week in Indie Basement we’ve got new records by Sharp Pins ( Lifeguard ‘s Kai Slater ), Oneohtrix Point Never, Irish-by-way-of-Portugal band pôt-pot, and Chicago’s Glyders, plus two rave-forward ...
A scholar of all things rave culture, the new EP is a love letter to sound system culture and the countless branches. Old ...
Ten people, including three teenagers, have been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with three separate shootings between Aug. 23 and Sept. 2, according to Bronx District Attorney ...
The Rolling Loud festival is underway this weekend at Citi Field in Queens, but without three local drill rappers who were removed from the festival. The three rappers were Brooklyn’s 22Gz, and the ...
Sincere Jazmin was only 16 years old when he was shot and killed by another teen at a bus stop in Queens, N.Y. on March 26. The young man was an aspiring rap artist who went by the name, “Sdot Blokka.
The world’s biggest drill rapper may spend the rest of his life in bars — and no one should want his crown. This week, Chicago rapper Lil Durk was arrested in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill ...
Ricardo Glass, aka Baby Jamo, was involved in a vehicle crash into a barrier by the U.S. Capitol. Police said the vehicle was stolen. Credit: Courtesy of US Capitol Police Two new developments rocked ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Drill rap is a form of hip-hop that started in Chicago in the 2000s before hitting the scene in New York. The music’s subject ...
The English rapper Slowthai grew up listening to American musicians. “Rappers coming from Memphis, SpaceGhostPurrp, Raider Klan, even Elliott Smith,” says the 26-year-old, born Tyron Frampton, ticking ...
Christopher Thomas has a vivid memory of the first time he heard drill music. In 2011, he was working at Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School within Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, aiming to ...
Rap music started off as a genre made by Black people, for Black people, meant to serve as an outlet to express struggles surrounding race in America. White people refused to listen to it for that ...
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