inforum

Spirit Lake rapper amplifies voices of Native youth

FARGO — Stuart James, a hip-hop artist from the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, raps about important issues that affect Native communities. The 30-year-old started off as a shy kid. Though he ...
inforum

Rapping out of the box: American Indian artists join in hip-hop event

Amer Ahmed, a longtime board member at the Hip Hop Congress, found the concept of American Indian hip-hop strikingly unfamiliar. Last November, Ahmed, director of intercultural affairs at Concordia ...
insider.si.edu

Indigenous Hip-Hop and Beyond with Brothers Spencer Battiest and Doc Native

Any descriptive label intended to encompass the talents of brother duo Spencer Battiest and Doc Native falls short. Although they produced and performed at a concert called “First Beats: Indigenous ...

Wilmington native and ‘first lady of hip-hop’ headed to NC Music Hall of Fame

MC Sha-Rock, a Wilmington native known as the “first lady of hip-hop,” will be inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of ...
The Source

BIGG B: The Best Native Rapper You’ve Never Heard Of Is Just Getting Started

His latest release, Devil Is A Lie Pt. 2, serves as another reminder of why he continues to build a loyal following across ...
Oregonian

For Native hip-hop artist, music serves as an outlet for cultural connection and social justice

This story originally appeared on Underscore.news and is co-published by Underscore.news and ICT, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. Funding is provided in ...
AOL

Indio native Amadeus’ rap career takes off, and he dreams of a spot on Coachella stage

Amadeus, a 26-year-old rapper from Indio, is so committed to his artistry, he's asked The Desert Sun to not publish his birth name. It probably wouldn't be hard to figure out, sifting through old ...
Digital Journal

Rap, a universal language, in service of endangered ones

Rap has been called a universal language — but it can also be a tool to preserve languages at risk. In small communities around the world, indigenous people have been embracing rap as a means of ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota's native rap scene profiled in Vice's new Apple Music series

A rather bright national spotlight has finally been cast on Minnesota's booming American Indian hip-hop scene. Vice Media and Apple Music have teamed up to create an ambitious new documentary series ...
WAPT

Jackson native Courtland Liddell wins Grammy for mixing gospel rap song

16 WAPT'S CRYSTAL HAS MORE ON HIS JOURNEY AND HOW THIS ALL CAME TO BE. NAT TRACK JACKSON NATIVE, COURTLAND LIDDELL SHARES HIS EXCITEMENT AFTER WINNING HIS FIRST GRAMMY AS A MIXING ENGINEER. SOT ...
insider.si.edu

Native tongues : an African hip-hop reader / edited by P. Khalil Saucier

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...