Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/hip-hop/ Our Thing Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/hip-hop/ 144 144 10 Artists Shaping the Current Colombian Hip-Hop Scene https://remezcla.com/lists/music/10-artists-shaping-the-current-colombian-hip-hop-scene/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_guides&p=437049 Hip-hop is a culture that cuts across nearly every aspect of life. It’s much more than music and virtuosic rhymes; it’s a tool for narrating everyday life and looking at reality in a raw, honest, and deeply personal way. It’s a way to speak without censorship, to express oneself freely; to preserve the memory not

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]]> El Kalvo_Verito Asprilla_Hip-Hop Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. INTERVIEW: Trina Gets Real About Being a Woman in Hip-Hop & Her Caribbean Influence https://remezcla.com/features/music/trina-interview-woman-in-hip-hop-caribbean-influence/ Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:48:59 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=357910 Trina, the iconic rapper of Dominican and Bahamian roots, continues to remind people why she remains one of the most influential women in rap. Since the late ’90s, she has been pushing her music to the masses, and now, in celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, she still thinks that there are more women to celebrate.

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]]> 2L8A5560 Photographer: Maria Juliah. How Puerto Rican Gangs Gave Birth to Hip-Hop – This Podcast Tells the Story https://remezcla.com/features/music/how-puerto-rican-gangs-gave-birth-to-hip-hop-this-podcast-tells-the-story/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:50:08 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=353915 Aug. 11, 1973, is the date we can pinpoint as the start of hip-hop. That’s when DJ Kool Herc threw a Back To School party at a rec room in the Bronx, NY, and changed history forever. However, an earlier event can be considered the real catalyst for the genre coming into existence. On December

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]]> Podcast_Can You Dig It? Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. Ahead of 50th Anniversary, This Audio Series Will Tell Hip-Hop’s Origin Story https://remezcla.com/music/ahead-of-50th-anniversary-this-audio-series-will-tell-hip-hops-origin-story/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:33:32 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?p=351856 With the 50th anniversary of hip-hop coming up soon, Audible is releasing a new five-part series about the birth of the iconic South Bronx movement in the 1970s, narrated by the hip-hop legend Chuck D from Public Enemy. Titled Can You Dig It? A Hip Hop Origin Story, the series comes out Aug. 10 via

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]]> “Holla If Ya Hear Me” Exhibit Opening_Chuck D_50th CLEVELAND, OHIO - JUNE 29: Chuck D of Public Enemy speaks during the opening event dedicating the Hip-Hop at 50 Exhibit "Holla If Ya Hear Me" sponsored by Technics at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on June 29, 2023 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Duane Prokop/Getty Images) The Pop Smoke Effect: How The Panamanian, BK Drill Rapper Impacted Brazilian Hip-Hop https://remezcla.com/features/music/the-pop-smoke-effect-how-the-panamanian-bk-drill-rapper-impacted-brazilian-hip-hop/ Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:38:17 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_features&p=300822 Rennan da Penha is a well-known face in Brazil. He’s one of the producers who architected one of the freshest iterations of baile funk, the “150”—a sped-up, frantic strain of the Brazilian music genre. Despite his achievements, da Penha doesn’t have a glossy photo of himself on Instagram or Twitter, where he’s quite active. Instead,

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]]> header-bk-drill-rap Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Album Earns Longest #1 Hip Hop/R&B Album In 30 Years https://remezcla.com/music/pop-smokes-posthumous-album-earns-longest-1-hip-hop-rb-album-in-30-years/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 23:09:59 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=300818 Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, the first posthumous studio full-length by Pop Smoke made history this week as the longest running number one Hip Hop/R&B album since 1990. Released in July 2020, almost four months after the late Brooklyn rapper was shot dead in Hollywood Hills at only 20 years old, the

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]]> 479BC879-9E26-4AA4-9359-89BC2EBB5469 Remembering MF DOOM, Enigmatic, ‘Genius’ Rapper Loved By All https://remezcla.com/features/music/remembering-hip-hop-legend-mf-doom-obit-and-impact/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:38:22 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_features&p=296943 Over two months after the sudden death of enigmatic rapper MF DOOM, his widow, Jasmine Dumile, posted the news on Instagram on New Year’s Eve. Comments were rife with shock as fans realized the 49-year-old died from unknown causes last Halloween. But, in good humor, DOOM’s cult following joked that the rapper would have likely

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]]> header-mfdoom Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla Nuevo Noise: 15 Songs You Need to Hear This Week https://remezcla.com/lists/music/nuevo-noise-15-songs-need-hear-week-7-14-20/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:56:21 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_guides&p=282765 We are living through an era where more music is available to us than ever – whether it be via social media, streaming or apps. But despite this wealth of options, it can be difficult to cut through the industry hype, the homogenizing algorithms, and find something new and exciting. In our weekly Nuevo Noise

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]]> sow-7-13 Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla Nuevo Noise: 13 Songs You Need to Hear This Week https://remezcla.com/lists/music/nuevo-noise-13-songs-need-hear-week-7-1-20/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:49:47 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_guides&p=282414 We are living through an era where more music is available to us than ever – whether it be via social media, streaming or apps. But despite this wealth of options, it can be difficult to cut through the industry hype, the homogenizing algorithms, and find something new and exciting. In our weekly Nuevo Noise

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]]> sow-01-07 Art by Stephany Torres for Renezcla 10 Queer & Trans Femmes Taking Over Brazilian Music Charts https://remezcla.com/lists/music/10-queer-trans-femmes-brazilian-charts/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 14:04:51 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_guides&p=282467 As the euphoria of Pride 2020 winds down, it’s once again time to reflect on the representation of the LGBTQ+ community in the media. Among the seasonal tidal wave of performative branding opportunities and Pride playlists mostly highlighting “queer” anthems by cisgender, heterosexual artists (it’s OK to give “Vogue” a rest you guys), there is

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