Something very, very strange has happened during quarantine. For the past couple months, no matter how hard I try, and no matter how much my friends and family beg me to stop, I can’t stop making ...
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Shangri-La Records has announced the second season of its “Lo-Fi in Hi-Fi” series, a monthly listening event celebrating “the deeply influential yet insufficiently documented Memphis hip-hop scene of ...
Slowed and reverb and lo-fi hip-hop share some distinct similarities, with both subgenres birthing their own subcultures online, and becoming the soundtrack to Generation Z. On TikTok, the hashtag for ...
As the Recording Academy honors Fela Kuti posthumously, it reminds us that culture doesn’t wait for institutions to catch up. Contributing to that introduction is the recent rise of lo-fi hip-hop ...
Right now, the lo-fi rap underground is in a cool, collaborative place. Ascendant young rappers and producers are willing to team up, not just for individual songs but for entire full-length projects.
Out of the ether, Samsa emerged. And that’s all we knew him as — from the beginning to the end of his brief career, his real name was never revealed. During 2017, he released about a dozen lo-fi hip ...
Last summer the New York lo-fi rap mainstay MIKE continued his tradition of releasing new albums on June 21 with Disco! Today he’s back with another woozy, loop-driven meditation called “Makeda” and a ...
The California producer and New York rapper collaborate on a contemplative and captivating lo-fi rap record about moving through this life and into the next. No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 ...
Shangri-La Records' "Lo-Fi in Hi-Fi" series returns for a second season, celebrating 1990s Memphis hip-hop. The series will be held at the B-Side venue in Minglewood Hall and livestreamed. Each month ...