Music on the Page at the Texas Book Festival

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

"...in Capitol Extension Room E2.014. Paper Mixtapes: Histories in Hip-Hop..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

KUTX Summer Jam

Inaugural showcase highlights the best of ATX hip-hop and beyond

"...Knight and Jared "Confucius Jones" Williams, hosts of KUTX’s hip-hop show The Breaks, last Friday’s Summer Jam featured Austin’s..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Chron Events Post by Savannah Opre

SXSW Film Panel: Nelson George Keynote

Influential multihyphenate talks hip-hop and The Get Down

"...perceptions of space and time around the beginnings of hip-hop. The incredibly accomplished critic/columnist/author/filmmaker was at the forefront of..."

March 13, 2016 Screens Post by Kahron Spearman

Turnt Up

The Weird City Hip-Hop Festival returns as a single-day rap off

"...Less than three weeks before the second Weird City Hip-Hop Festival, one of its organizers, local rapper Adam Protextor,..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Geto Boys Recap

Geto Boys and Company Play Mind Tricks at Emo’s

"...Legendary hip-hop group Geto Boys visited Emo’s last Friday here in..."

Sept. 16, 2013 Chron Events Post by Andrew Osegi

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...yoga poses, all the while speaking in an easy hip-hop poetic that swings from passion to apocalypse to comedy..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

You Got Served

Wild style street dancing trumps storyline.

"...it’s worth. Director Chris Stokes has made videos for hip-hop outfits B2K and IMX, and two of those groups’..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Malibu's Most Wanted

"...Niggaz With Hats rhymed about their "peanuts." Unlike that hip-hop parody (as well as Chris Rock’s occasionally inspired CB-4),..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scratch

"...doomy sound. But Scratch, which tracks the evolution of hip-hop DJs' love affair with “scratching” records (that is, moving..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mothership Connection

Space is place for the hip-hop race

"...one of the defining albums in the development of hip-hop...."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Walk Like Cleto

H-town's Chingo Bling slings tamale beats

"...are straight outta south side Houston, the H-town underground, hip-hop epicenter of the Dirty South. So are the tracks..."

June 11, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Loud and Proud at Pink Elephant Radio’s First SXSW Showcase

Pink Privilege becomes SX's inaugural queer hip hop event

"...If hip hop is a culture, as Pink Elephant..."

March 18, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime

Pink Elephant Puts Black LGBTQ Artists Center Stage

Austin's queer hip-hop fest returns for year two

"...The nation’s largest queer hip-hop music festival, Pink Elephant, returns to Austin this weekend..."

March 31, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

Battle of the Year

In this dance competish, it's U.S.A. all the way.

"...The Battle of the Year is an annual international hip-hop/b-boy event held in France with over 20 countries participating...."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

The actor Michael Rapaport turns director for this admiring portrait of the seminal Nineties hip-hop outfit.

"...camera in this admiring portrait of the seminal Nineties hip-hop outfit A Tribe Called Quest. But his voice –..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

ATL

Wicked smart examination of black kids in modern Atlanta features talented young actors navigating the circuitous path to adulthood while spending their downtime at the local roller rink.

"...by a smooth, engaging cast of relative unknowns and hip-hop up-and-comers, Robinson's debut feature glides along with the thoughtful,..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meet Austin’s Funk Prodigy D-Madness

Blind purveyor of soul, hip-hop, and reggae takes us behind the curtain

"...Project, he plies a brash amalgam of funk, soul, hip-hop, and reggae...."

July 28, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Who's Your Caddy?

Hip-hop culture invades the golf course in this instantly disposable and not terribly funny comedy.

"...Tony Cox, Jenifer Lewis, James Avery and Garrett Morris. Hip-hop culture invades the golf course in Who’s Your Caddy?,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

Documentary tracks the evolution of the artist and activist

"...with home movies of her dancing to Madonna, discovering hip-hop, traveling back to Sri Lanka in her 20s to..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Texas Album Hall of Fame: Project Crew

Tee Double dusts off the local release that proved Austin hip-hop worthy of his raps

"...Released in 1988 when Austin hip-hop thrived on many levels, Project Crew consisted of DJ..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Music Feature by Terrany “Tee Double” Johnson

DVDanger: Tokyo Tribe

Sion Sono's deranged, delirious hip-hop musical rocks

"...the first note, the first word. But Sion Sono's hip-hop musical Tokyo Tribe is a two-hour fountain of crazy,..."

Dec. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dope

Peppy caper film features unusual characters: black high school geeks

"...and attending Ivy League colleges, and geeks for Nineties hip-hop culture, BMX bikes, Game of Thrones, and other things..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Eco: The Culture War to Save the World

Punk, hip-hop and literature sign up for the eco fight

"...The Hip-Hop Caucus has four tenets – strengthening democracy, climate change,..."

Oct. 9, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Mic Exchange

Showcasing next generation hip-hop every Tuesday

"...I took note of the faces filling out a hip-hop open mic: young kids, college-aged and rail-thin, with backpacks..."

May 29, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

I'm Still Here

Is Joaquin Phoenix having a meltdown, or is he putting us on? Only his brother-in-the-law, the film's director, knows for sure.

"...acting and the assumption of a career as a hip-hop artist. During this time, Phoenix had his infamous public..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Down by Law

More than two decades later, 'Wild Style' still stands as a hip-hop high point

"...Known as one of the cornerstones of the emerging hip-hop movement of the early Eighties, Wild Style presented rap..."

June 11, 2004 Screens Feature by Robert Gabriel

Never Die Alone

Every known hip-hop gangster cliché comes to the fore in this film starring DMX and David Arquette.

"...someone had handed Dickerson a list of every known hip-hop hoodlum cliché and dared him to cobble together a..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Save the Last Dance

"...film, Save the Last Dance uses the marriage of hip-hop and ballet as the backdrop for its story of..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tupac: Resurrection

More popular dead than alive, the hip-hop Tupac Shakur is remembered in this authorized documentary.

"...becomes him. It’s been a full seven years since hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur left this mortal coil at age..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The San Marcos Music Scene Runs Deep

ACL Fest hip-hop headliners Brockhampton might just be the tip of the iceberg from our neighbors south on I-35

"...years ago, few could have expected that the biggest hip-hop act at ACL Fest this Oct­ober – likely the..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Music Feature by Jeremy Steinberger

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