Hip Hop

SWIDT: 'Crying is a form of healing' | Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower

Four life lessons we can learn from the fall of hip-hop giants Dawn Raid

Rapper Mo Muse didn’t feel belonging in Aotearoa until he found Hip Hop | The Outliers

A 64 Bars debut from Ranuimarz that’s “full of mana”

Our favourite music by NZ artists in 2020

20-year-old Shiraz is “the most underrated MC in the country”

Waguan raps about social justice while making you dance

Muslim rapper Abrzy travels to Bangladesh to make sense of his home in Aotearoa | The Outliers

Winston Peters on how fish heads are the secret to youthful skin | Church and State

Melodownz shows us how to make his banana pancakes | Party Trick

Mazbou Q empowers Black pride in his latest release

Auckland rapper/actor/geography student Hans. shares his new music video

Watch out for NZ rap competition winner RAAJ

Team Dynamite share their soothing new track ‘Dragon Fruit’

Revealed: New Zealand's top five underground rappers, judged by Smoke and Church

Black New Zealanders on how hip hop finally gave them a place to belong

How to make a beat with SWIDT producer Smokeygotbeatz

Sound Check: Randa rejects the productivity myth

Melodownz turned self-affirmations into a catchy hook

5 things we learnt about JessB in our IG live chat

How Church & AP are making it work during Covid-19

Release of the Week: Diggy Dupé turns a Niuean war chant into an exhilarating hip hop track

Release of the Week: Raiza Biza and his crew of African-Kiwi artists are stealing back their funds

Premiere: Mo Muse’s new music video “goes out to all the immigrants”

Release of the Week: Auckland rapper Hans. takes us into his dreamy $5 music video

Re:hearsal Room: Mazbou Q

Re:hearsal Room: Swizl Jager

Re:hearsal Room: Raiza Biza

School of Beatbox

Tonga’s hip hop group, The Onion Squad