Hip Hop
B-girls on the Rise
Lauren Dunningham, aka B-girl Legend, and Jody Stewart, aka B-girl Nossy, know a thing or two about battling it out on the dance floor. Their dance style of choice is "breaking", or breakdancing and… Audio
Jay Knight - Making Waves
Hailing from Wellington, Jay Knight is an upcoming beatmaker affiliated with the Young, Gifted and Broke collective who has just released his debut album, 19/94. Aleyna Martinez catches up with the… Audio
Arts Ambassador - Hip Hop
University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke raps about hip hop music and culture. What is a 'dis' and why does hip hop have them? Audio
Unlikely Breakdancers
Troupe instigator Billie Jordan on why dancing is important to a community and the challenges one faces when taking a group of senior citizens to compete at the World Hip Hop Dance Champs. Audio
Womad 2014 Live: Arrested Development, La Chiva Gantiva
Highlights from a live performance by pioneering hip-ho group Arrested Development, and a live performance from La Chiva Gantiva, a seven-piece band formed in Brussels by a collection of expat… Audio
Kanye West Review
The Wireless's Elle Hunt joins Emma Smith with her thoughts on Kanye West's show in Sydney last night. Audio
The Sampler - The Bug, Angels And Devils
Reviewer Scott Kara takes a listen to the menacing, apocalyptic sounds on Angels And Devils, the latest album from London electronic producer The Bug. Audio
Music 101 Pocket Edition 7
Trinity Roots break the song drought, Yumi Zouma take on the world, synths and alter egos with Little Bark and the story of OMC's How Bizarre. Audio
@Peace live at the Montecristo Room
On @Peace and the Plutonian Noise Symphony, the debut album from @Peace, the hip hop and future soul collective wrestle with heady subjects like time dilation, aliens, death, and determinism. The… Audio
Hilltop Hoods
Adelaidean rap trio Hilltop Hoods are one of Australia's biggest hip hop exports, but their meat and potatoes boom bap has yet to cut through in New Zealand. Hilltop Hoods' MC Suffa tell us why he… Audio
Buckshot and P Money
P-Money's new album BackPack Travels sees him partner with Buckshot, a stalwart of NYC hip hop who co-founded Duck Down Music Inc., now home to P-Money and David Dallas. For Music 101, P-Money… Audio
Louie Knuxx
When New Plymouth hip hop artist Louie Knuxx touched down at Wellington Airport in November last year, it'd been six years since he'd stepped foot on New Zealand soil - the result of various warrants… Audio
REMi
Remi Kolawole, better known as REMi, is a Melbourne based MC who won the Australian unsigned band competition Triple J Unearthed in 2013. REMi has just released Raw x Infinity, an album produced by… Audio
Introducing: Heavy
Heavy, with their song Superbad. http://thatsheavybro.bandcamp.com/ Audio
PNC
Rapper Sam Hansen, a.k.a. PNC, wears his hometown on his sleeve, having taken his acronymic alias from 'Palmerston North City'. It was from Palmy that a young Hansen attracted the attention of Breakin… Audio
The Sampler: Future - Honest and Schoolboy Q- Oxymoron
Nick Bollinger casts a critical ear over two new hip-hop releases, and wonders if the historically innovative genre has hit a plateau. Audio
The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop
As a musical genre built on wordplay, hip hop is home to some of the wordiest lyricists about. New York data scientist Matthew Daniels took it upon himself to work out just how wordy rappers are… Audio
Che Fu's lifetime achievement award
Che Fu is one of New Zealand's most successful hip hop vocalists.
In 2009 the Samoan musician received the Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music.
On the 8th May 2014 he was… Audio
DJ Premier
Twenty years ago, Nasir Jones - the Queensbridge New York rapper known simply as Nas - released Illmatic, his debut album, produced by a who's-who of early 90s East Coast hip hop, including Q-Tip… Audio
Dawn Raid Entertainment 15th Anniversary
April 11 2014 marks 15 years since the founding of Dawn Raid Entertainment, the South Auckland record label established by Danny 'Brotha D' Leaoasavaii and Andy Murnane when they were fresh out of… Audio
