Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses uplifting poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow to communicate uplifting rhymes about his culture and people. The 29-year-old Tehran native broke ground in Iran by becoming the

Long before Occupy Wall Street, Italian rappers Zero Plastica gave voice to the plight of the 99% -- the messed up economy, political chicanery, organized crime, lack of opportunity and overwhelming odds stacked against regular people. DJ Nio, Lure, and G.O.Man are activists and moral consciences

Apartheid may be officially over, but South Africa is far from seamless unity. In the space created by the Black/White divide, however, in the frisson of classes and cultures grating against each other, young Zulu and Afrikaaner (and Sotho and Xhosa) kids are making music.

Rapper YAS is Iran's Persian hip hop laureate. A disciple of Tupac and Rumi, YAS uses uplifting poetic imagery delivered through an impassioned, at times ferocious, flow to communicate uplifting rhymes about his culture and people.

New Zealand, whose popular music scene didn't take root until well after the British Invasion hit its shores in the mid-'60s, has made up for a late start in joining the global pop-music party. (Photo: Dove Shore)...

Sometime late 2008, rap duo Das Racist released "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" onto Youtube. The song consisted of two guys repeating "I'm at the Pizza Hut/I'm at the Taco Bell/I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" until you either wanted to shoot your monitor or fell off your

In our 5th episode we check out a Chilean child prodigy with a great head of hair, a British electropop group with a vampiric vibe, and a Congolese/Belgian rapper with a smooooth French flow. Check out more on this week's artists: Francisca Valenzuela, Ladytron, and Baloji....

Calm, collected, and yes, cute. That’s Emicida, the Sao Paulo freestyle king who swept the Brazilian MTV Music Video Awards this year. On a recent trip to NYC, the MC killer and his crew visited East Village Radio for an afternoon, and MTV Iggy was there to capture it all. In an exclusive

If you think about it, incorporating throat singing and Mongolian instruments and shamanic traditions into black metal is really a totally logical move. Mongolian shamanism = pagan practices, revering the natural world, and badass costumes, which = black metal, obvs. Also, despite centuries of

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At MTV Iggy, we believe that pop music is becoming increasingly borderless. The internet age brought on the birth of millennial sensibilities -- and with it, a world where western artists aren’t the only ones dominating the vernacular. Americans can listen to Korean pop. Venezuelans can fall in

SHOCK --in the best possible way-- was our reaction to Culture Shock's latest remix. Nicki Minaj's Super Bass mashed up with Bumbro Bhumbro from Mission

It’s been four years since SM Entertainment’s artists — known collectively as SMTown — have come together for a winter holiday album. After finally dropping their 2011 edition, The Warmest Gift, on December 13, the …

Skipping the traditional weekend of turkey dinners, thousands of K-pop fans made their way over to Las Vegas this past Thanksgiving weekend for the first annual Billboard K-pop Masters concert. The two-day concert event (November 25-26), launched in honor of Billboard’s…

Dressed in cozy Christmas sweaters, fluffy hats, and knitted scarves, the boys of MBLAQ smiled big in an autographed teaser photo for their upcoming digital single, “White Forever.” The music video for the Christmas themed …

On last week’s SM-centric episode of Studio 5, Grace counted down our ten favorite Girls’ Generation music videos, from the girls’ debut single, “Into the New World,” all the way to their latest chart-topping release, …

Skipping the traditional weekend of turkey dinners, thousands of K-pop fans made their way over to Las Vegas this past Thanksgiving weekend for the first annual Billboard K-pop Masters concert. The two-day concert event (November 25-26), launched in honor of Billboard’s…

When New Moon came out, we remarked on the cultish clan of moms who love Robert Pattinson as much as their teen daughters do. I was always embarrassed by my

When a band has a name like The Suicide of Western Culture, and tracks like "This Is The Last Time I Shake Your Hand," "Children Shouldn't Been Playing Beside the Railways" , and "A Forest of Greyhounds Hanged," it's sure easy to hit your wordcount! The quirky Barcelona duo only seems like a

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