KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Frank Waln, the 35-year-old award-winning Lakota artist and activist of Indigenous culture, has signed on as a faculty member of Western Michigan University’s Irving S. Gilmore ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indigenous hip hop is nothing new, and nor does the term constitute a cohesive and culturally predetermined genre of music. But in ...

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 ...

Three Cree hip hop acts out of Quebec are up for several awards at the first International Indigenous Hip Hop Awards, including Hip Hop Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. "We didn't think ...

Today marks 15 years since Nigeria lost the remarkable rapper Da Grin. 5 years before its release, the Nigerian music industry lost one of the shining lights in rapper Da Grin, whose smooth ...

Artist Talonpoika Lalli performs at the Loktafeasta rap festival in Utsjoki village, north of the Arctic circle, Finland (AP) It was well past midnight when Mihkku Laiti took to the stage at an ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Backstage at a celebration of Indigenous peoples in Mexico City's sprawling central square, Carlos CGH traced his fingers across a black and red “gabán,” which is similar to a ...

The video for Supaman’s 2015 song “Why” opens with the stunning image of blue and white ribbons swaying in the wind. Adorned in traditional Native American regalia, the rapper—who was born Christian ...

GREEN BAY – Menominee rapper Richard Turney, whose stage name is Richy Rich, had a message for the world since middle school, but never a path to get it out — until now. Spending time between Green ...

People come and go. That’s the way the game works. These artistes you see today, one day you shall see no more. It’s true for Eastern rap music. One of the side-effects of the internet age is the love ...