Summer Fun Playlist: “Summa, Summa, Summertime!” Hip-Hop & Soul

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Punk-Hop Love Letter to the Late Rapper Lil Peep Soars High

SXSW Film premieres Everybody’s Everything

March 11, 2019 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Gay Place: Hop, Bop, Shop

Nothing like gifts for the fam made by your other fam ...

"...cuties. Events over the next few weeks offer muy shopportunites for you to procure gifts with a conscience and..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Hop, Skip, 'Jump'

Ballroom Marfa reading series hosts Austin writer Andrew Lanham

"...followed by Q&As. "Now, after Marfa," says Lanham, "I'll hopefully be moving into a newer new fourth, actually fifth,..."

March 25, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Hop on the Bus, Gus; Donate a New Can, Stan

"...for Greenpeace featuring D.R.U.M. and Seventh Sinse. They are hoping to make these events a regular series to build..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Column

R-e-s-p-e-c-t

The State of Austin's Hip-Hop Scene

"...Park on the Eastside photograph by Kenny Braun Austin's hip-hop scene just isn't the same as it was two..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

High Impact

Austin hip-hop promoters Hip-Hop Mecca

"...Hip-hop is like the Internet, or in theory, like the..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Bombs Not Bullets

Austin Hip-Hop Mushrooms

"...DJ Sista Stroke photograph by Bruce Dye..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Local Flow

Austin hip-hop in the house -- really

"...Hip-hop may be on top of the world, but it's..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Throwing Down Love

The seven-year rise of Knolly Williams, the Master P of Christian hip-hop

"...full-page ad in Billboard's Dec. 4, 1999 "Rap & Hip-Hop Spotlight" looked like every other label's trade advertisement. Along..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

21 Austin Rappers to Know in ’21

A hard-cut list of MCs proving the local hip-hop scene’s legitimacy

"...The Austin hip-hop scene's collective march toward widespread recognition is taking longer..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Brown Sugar

"...of My Life),” with its thrumming, soulful chorus of “Hip-hop, you the love of my life.” It's a perfect..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

South by So Real

Hustling SXSW hip-hop with Matt Sonzala.

"...and all-around hustler Matt Sonzala was reppin' the Houston hip-hop scene way before anyone outside the 281 area code..."

Feb. 12, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

In an iLL Manner: How Jamal McKinney Sells Out Rap Shows at Antone’s

Inside the promoter’s euphoric, elegant vision for hip-hop booking

"...history on the Cherrywood Coffeehouse patio, after staging 20 hip-hop shows at Antone's over two years of partnership with..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Playback: That’s the Breaks

In studio with Confucius and Fresh, hosts of KUTX’s first ever hip-hop specialty show

"..."If it wasn't for hip-hop right now, there wouldn't be no music industry."..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Fun Fun Fun Q&A: Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop pioneer predicts Martians breakdancing to “Planet Rock”

"...Regarding the birth of hip-hop, Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa rightfully divvy..."

Nov. 5, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

This Time Just the Girls

The ladies of Austin hip-hop hold court

"...April. It somehow got me thinking about our city's hip-hop scene and the women involved in it. There's a..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Trunk Full of Funk

First Degree Hip-Hop

"...In the world of hip-hop,SoundScan ain't shit. Not only does Billboard's high-tech sales accounting..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Playback: SXSW Again Pivots on Rap

Hip-hop sustains the Festival's star power

"...to the SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive conferences, classic hip-hop artists proved an especially popular choice for brands. Besides..."

March 16, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Nancy Fly Waves Bye-Bye

Pioneering Austin booker Nancy Fly retires, and ATX gets a hip-hop festival

"...12mid: Los Texmaniacs Hip-Hop's Weird City..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Invocation of the Duke

daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra's chamber music

"...more to publicize the inherent similarities between jazz and hip-hop than anyone had done prior. Q-Tip followed a year..."

May 27, 2009 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

South by So Real 09

Rapping with Matt Sonzala about SXSW hip-hop

"...booker and hustler extraordinaire Matt Sonzala about all things hip-hop. If an MC is performing at the festival, Sonzala..."

March 10, 2009 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

8 Mile

Eminen's semi-autobiographical story of a young, white rapper on the rise in Detroit has a soft-focus Hollywood tint.

"...in almost every imaginable aspect than any of his hip-hop cohorts' previous efforts in the acting biz, but when..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

10 Years On, KUTX Celebrates Staying Fresh

Hip-hop, local talent help to upend public radio assumptions

"...a little louder, playing younger music, and playing more hip-hop, soul, and R&B...."

Sept. 22, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Playback: Rap Reigns at SXSW

Snoop Dogg crowns SXSW hip-hop as keynote, the Cherubs may have topped Heroin Man, and Sparkplug becomes part of musicians’ shared economy

"...You won't hear any hip-hop fans complaining about a dearth of headliners at South..."

March 13, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Stephen Marley Q&A

Reggae scion on hip-hop, Bob, and a new branch on the family tree

"...II: The Fruit of Life, a star-studded marriage of hip-hop and reggae. First time he mentions “my father,” however..."

May 23, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Black and White

"...and irascible look at issues of race, class, and hip-hop in modern-day New York City. Constructed as a mosaic..."

April 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Leave No Stones Unturned

Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf on vinyl, hip-hop's roots, and record labels

"...that has evolved from an all-vinyl outlet for underground hip-hop producers like Madlib and the late J Dilla into..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

Notorious

In Notorious, the life of hip-hop artist Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, assumes the shape of the standard biopic formula.

"...and Julia Pace Mitchell. In Notorious, the life of hip-hop artist Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls,..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Music on the Page at the Texas Book Festival

Music books strut their feminism, hip-hop, and emo

"...An illustrated mental map opens music critic Jessica Hopper's new novel Night Moves. The patch of Chicago geography,..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

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