When it comes to cultural exports of the Bay Area, hyphy is in a league of its own. The subgenre of hip-hop has an up-tempo, hyperactive beat that makes you want to dance. In the early 2000s, artists ...

Back in 2006, there was one question that was on everyone's minds outside of the Bay Area: What's ghost riding? Interest in the activity — where someone drives a car at a low speed and then jumps out ...

Imagine a sideshow. Visualize a place for everyone to “stunt” or to show off their high performance muscle cars with a snake-like line of about 300 cars coursing in the street. Hear the music blaring, ...

Hell, the year that underground rap re-exploded wouldn’t be complete without the return of the mighty Latyrx! On their 1997 debut, The Album, the Bay Area duo of Lyrics Born and Lateef the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Bay Area music producer is being remembered as a powerhouse responsible for a cultural movement known as hyphy. Traxamillion, aka, Sultan Banks, died Sunday of cancer at an aunt's ...

WHEN veteran rapper E-40’s wildly infectious single “Tell Me When to Go” became a hit in early 2006, it turned the urban music industry’s spotlight on hyphy, a cultural movement created in Oakland ...

October 25, 2022 marks the third anniversary of the launch of the Rightnowish podcast! First formed as a radio show in early 2019, Rightnowish, the podcast launched in late October of the same year.

When people think of West Coast hip-hop, they tend to refer to the Los Angeles rap scene. However, if you travel up California state a few hundred miles, you'll notice that the Bay Area has always had ...

G Funk crowned Dr. Dre. Crunk made a household name out of Lil Jon. The hardcore Hip-Hop movement resurrected DJ Premier. Whenever a subgenre blows up, there s usually one producer that gets pointed ...

For the last few years, 26-year-old bedroom producer, YP on The Beat, has been working on a new Yay Area sound, one that combines the booming, gloopy sound of hyphy, with the regimented high hat and ...

The last time Lolo Zouaï made an album, she was “super-hardcore dreaming” from behind the host stand during her shifts at Bareburger in New York City. She wanted a future when she could fully focus on ...