Over the last few years, underground Indian hip-hop has become bold and assertive, deviating away from the party anthems that have dominated and driven the genre towards the mainstream. The genre is ...

Ahmer Javaid (left) and Arif Farooq alias Qafilah (right) are among the rappers making up the hip-hop community of Kashmir. Credit: Najmus Saqib Subscribe for ads-free reading They may look like any ...

Popular rapper Brodha V (Vighnesh Shivanand) has just dropped his high-energy album Underrated, in which he does something ...

The actor, who starred in the movie focused on India’s underground hip-hop scene, has helped start the record label IncInk. By Priya Arora The year was 1995. The song was Tupac Shakur’s “California ...

Hip-hop began in 1973 Bronx as a voice against racism and inequality, rooted in DJing, rapping, dance, and graffiti. It later ...

NEW DELHI, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The hip-hop artist Arivu was in his final year of engineering college when it hit home that he was a Dalit — one of the "untouchables" in India’s ...

The album positions DIVINE not only as India’s leading hip-hop export, but as a cultural vanguard shaping one of the world’s ...

Over the last few years, underground Indian hip-hop has become bold and assertive, deviating away from the party anthems that have dominated and driven the genre towards the mainstream. The genre is ...

Gully Boy, a film that follows the rags-to-riches tale of a rapper pursuing his dreams, has swept South Asia and its diaspora into a fervor, helping bring Indian hip-hop into the mainstream ...

Ranveer Singh, one of the stars of the recent film Gully Boy, at a publicity event in Mumbai on Jan. 9, 2019. The film has put a spotlight on Indian hip-hop, to the chagrin of some working in it. Over ...

A Christmas party at Oddspace brought together live hip-hop performances, DJ sets and a festive crowd, blending contemporary ...