Hip-hop has had a strong connection to reggae music since the days of DJ Kool Herc’s summer house parties in the early 1970s. Hip-hop’s foundation was built on elements of the Jamaican sound system ...

Long before Keznamdi collected his Grammy award as the 2026 winner for Best Reggae Album, the musically gifted Jamaican youth was a fiend for hip-hop. "I started out rapping," says Kez, who was raised ...

Jack Johnson, Grammy-nominated artist and one of the festival’s headliners, performs for a packed crowd on Sunday night in this multiple exposure image. (Tomoki Chien | Daily Trojan) Hip-hop legend ...

As Black History Month comes to a close, the 2022 NAACP Image Awards cap off a month celebrating black contributions to society. After the ceremony on Saturday, February 26, the celebrating will ...

Hip-hop and reggae have always been different branches on the same family tree. Think second or maybe third cousins. Sure, they've grown into their own distinct genres, but they've been borrowing from ...

King Social first jumped onto the scene with an Australia’s Got Talent appearance in 2016, and went on to independetly release their own EPs backed entirely but supportive fans. King Social vocalist ...

This past December, California-via-Hawaii reggae/hip hop trio The Late Ones released their very good new EP Lately on Easy Star Records. We called it a seamless fusion of the grooves and harmonies of ...

This March, the nation’s largest touring reggae festival returns to downtown St. Petersburg.

For a couple of years now, the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center in Redmond has hosted large-scale festivals focused on country music and electronic music. Now it’s reggae’s turn. The inaugural ...