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Hip-hop

July 2024

  • Cypress Hill’s cartoon band members with Homer Simpson in the Homerpalooza episode of The Simpsons from 1996

    Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true

    London Symphony Orchestra to play Black Sunday album at Royal Albert Hall decades after featuring on TV show
  • Beyoncé performs onstage wearing a bright pink dress as her hair is blown into the air

    Melodies in chart-topping music have become less complex, study finds

    Scientists say changes since 1950 could partly be due to new genres such as stadium rock, disco and hip-hop

    • Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government

    • Killer Mike will not face charges after Grammys arrest

    • Breakdancing in your 50s: ‘My body can still do everything – but it might take a year to heal an injury’

June 2024

  • Portrait of the band Cruza

    One to watch
    One to watch: Cruza

  • ‘I thought everyone in music had a really glamorous life. So I tried to make normality feel glamorous’ … Mike Skinner of the Streets.

    The reader interview
    The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’

  • Elijah

    Why are UK radio stations ignoring Black British music to play recycled American rap?

    Elijah
  • Burna Boy, Little Simz and Camila Cabello, three of the major stars playing Glastonbury this year.

    From African stars to British stalwarts, Glastonbury 2024 opens gates to a truly diverse lineup

  • From Coldplay to KMRU: who to see at Glastonbury 2024

  • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Doja Cat review – hair-raising US rapper puts on a fiery display

  • Belfast rappers Kneecap to contest pulling of funding over political views

  • I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Stephen Fry: ‘The Conservatives are what we call in poker a busted flush’

  • The reader interview
    Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah: ‘A group is hard to keep together – people get jealous’

  • Guardian Australia's headline act
    Dobby: ‘Hip-hop is a powerful tool to remind people to see past the crap’

  • Best culture of 2024 so far
    The best albums of 2024 so far

  • It’s OUR team: Euro 2024 anthem strikes a chord for England’s diversity

  • Observer book of the week
    Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove review – a soundtrack for the world, from the Sugarhill Gang to Kanye West

  • Howard University revokes Sean Combs’ honorary degree and scholarship he funded

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