By James Woodard
May 14, 2008

Break dancing, once the hallmark of underground urban culture and thought to be a passing fad of the 80s, is alive and well. The spastic dance cousin of hip hop has exploded onto the world stage of pop culture, with rabid fans and b-boy crews coming from every corner of the globe...

By Kimberly Turner
May 8, 2008

Not only do these self-proclaimed “aristocrass” of America show a complete disregard and abandon of phonetics, they also stray from anything that would be considered a traditional hip-hop album. There isn’t even any rapping on the quirky opener “Buy Me Lunch"...

By Donna Tam
April 30, 2008

Kiwi just couldn’t stand by and do nothing when he learned about the kidnapping and killings of progressive Filipino Americans in the Philippines by the Filipino government. The San Francisco-based rapper, formerly of the group Native Guns, decided to use his music to express his frustrations...

By Vickie Ly
April 28, 2008

Three nights out of the week, I work on the corner. No, no, I do not sell myself; just my dignity. I work in an outdoor shopping mall where I feel utterly displaced. And, while passersby stroll across the street to get their wrinkles straightened out, I stand next to my hot dog stand and smile...

By Donna Tam
April 24, 2008

When I started to go to school to study journalism, I told myself that I wasn't going to make any money doing this profession. I said I was fine with not making much money, working random hours and moving to some remote part of the country to get experience. I accepted that I would never be rich...

By Sam Devine
April 22, 2008

Power Struggle’s Hearts and Minds is a strong album. It has dripping, soulful beats and intelligent rapping with a delivery that demands to be heard...

By Darren Chapel
April 21, 2008

  Any follower of independent west coast hip hop has to agree that The Grouch’s newest album, his first solo production in nearly half...

By Sam Devine
April 16, 2008

Remember when Mohamed Ali lit the torch? Even though he was unable to speak and shaking from Parkinson's? I'm pretty sure I saw a tear in Dad's eye that day. But there was no joy in Mudville last Wednesday and no torch in Justin Herman Plaza when the Olympic torch came to San Francisco...

By Suemedha Sood, for Wiretapmag.org
April 14, 2008

Felicia Pearson weighed only three pounds when she was born. She was a crack baby with no parents. Her biological mother and father were both incarcerated at the time of her birth. Just by surviving, she defied all odds...

By Kimberly Turner
April 13, 2008

As the title implies, Lyrics Born is scattered all over the place, displaying his lyrical prowess on everything from relationships to racial identity to grieving a lost friend. The beats are equally schizophrenic...

By Dylan Silver
April 10, 2008

More than a simple live video, it’s a bouncy combination of diverse visual media, from the Office Space “O Face” clip to a faked Larry King interview and Relm’s own skits...

By Asiana Ponciano, Photos courtesy of Evan Cohen
April 2, 2008

"With Niggytardust, I’m looking at race and identity, which is a crucial time considering the political climate to have raised that in an album and say I believe race is a social construct that even to call myself black is reactionary..."

By Dylan Silver
March 28, 2008

Truth and Soul carries a broad range of sounds from both new school beat mixers such as El Michels Affair and classics like funky Lee Fields, who's been jamming since the late sixties. This mix hooks six of the label’s artists into a rhythm train that chugs along a changing track...

By Kimberly Turner
March 26, 2008

With his “hands to the clouds and feet stuck to the streets, our narrator begins our tour of the five boroughs with “Night Fall” attempting to capture the atmosphere of the city after the sun goes down...

By Zoneil Maharaj, Photos by Kirstina Sangsahachart
March 18, 2008

This month’s Youth Media Blog-a-Thon topic is violence. Oh Dang! caught up with Bambu, a former gang member turned emcee and activist, to discuss violence in his community and in the media. He currently counsels at-risk youth in L.A. while providing the soundtrack to the revolution. After gaining acclaim with the now-defunct Filipino hip hop duo Native Guns, he refocused his energy on his solo career...

By Kimberly Turner
February 27, 2008

Acclaimed Dutch producer Nicolay and Houston rapper Kay go together like peas and carrots on their release TIME:LINE, a hip-hop epic guaranteed to satiate your sonically famished ossicles. Hip-hop’s odd couple has completed a rather ambitious task: taking the story of a person’s life and condensing it into 12 dope tracks...

By Aaron Williams
February 22, 2008

One Be Lo, a.k.a One Man Army, continues to raise his lyrical prowess and knack for introspective topics with The R.E.B.I.R.T.H, his follow up to 2005's S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. Although it’s a solid release, it in no way tops his previous effort.

By Zoneil Maharaj
February 20, 2008

Youth Outlook and Wiretap are kicking off the first ever Youth Media Blog-A-Thon. This month’s topic is the 2008 presidential election. Oh Dang! editor-in-chief Zoneil Maharaj speaks on race, and not so eloquently at that.

By Craig Young
February 16, 2008

It reminded me of high school fights from a bygone era: A circle forms and rivals start jawing and gesturing at each other until one throws the first punch. Some of the b-boys could backup their taunts with dance moves. Others were all bark and got dismissed after the first round...

By Kimberly Turner
February 11, 2008

Words are weapons and in Boston native Akrobatik‘s case, pack the devastating force of a high powered assault riffle. Mr. A to the mother effin’ K is on a murderous mission to rid hip-hop of wack MC’s and apathy with his latest release Absolute Value...

By Oh Dang!, Photos by Craig Young
February 1, 2008

Lief Storer, founder of Delicious Drips, paints a 60-inch vinyl toy for his upcoming exhibit, Live or DIY. Storer coined the term "2.5-D" to...

By Jamilah King
January 25, 2008

It might be easy to compare Dahlak to folks like Mos Def or Lupe Fiasco, but perhaps the most apt comparison would be to -- well, no one. Dahlak has a style all his own and his lyrics reflect the most honest parts of himself...

By Craig Young
January 8, 2008

Seventeen young women gather inside the Center for Young Women’s Development, a non-profit organization in San Francisco. Society has deemed these women unreachable, untreatable and unchangeable because of generational cycles of incarceration, gang and family violence...

By Len Vinas, Photos by John Coyne
December 13, 2007

Chief Holyfire doesn’t want to be labeled a “Christian rapper.” He fears he'll be boxed into the religious music category, making it difficult to have a larger fan base, or make it into mainstream hip-hop consciousness.

By Len Vinas
December 12, 2007

Little Brother stays positive by keeping your head bobbing with ill beats while offering insights on people trying to step their game up, take care of their families, pay bills, deal with love/heart break and follow their dreams...

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