You voted, tweeted, and supported, and now there is one more way for you to be a part of MTV Iggy's Best New Band adventure. The Best New Band Concert featuring 2NE1, La Vida Boheme and Gyptian goes...

Just like cookies & cream, PB & J, grilled cheese & tomato soup… Asians and Hip-Hop have always gone together. What is it about the Asian culture that marinates so well with the Hip-Hop culture? Is it the street culture? Is it the shared immigrant-hardship experience that’s behind so much of

Our obsession with Epik High means that if something’s Korean and it’s hip-hop, we’ll give it a listen. (Though we’ll never replace you, Tablo!) So it was nice to hear

As is plain from Best Band in the World winner 2NE1, K-pop is repping hard in 2011. The industry, dominated by a few savvy entertainment companies, has made Seoul into a millenial Detroit, with acts like Girls Generation and Super Junior churning out catchy singles and beautiful choreography to

We haven’t written much about hip hop or indie artists here on MTV K but our big sister MTV Iggy took the plunge and wrote about Korean Hip Hop artist Verbal Jint today! (not to be confused with m-flo’s Verbal)

Crispi Crunch reveals their music video for new single, Goldfish, featuring Seehyeon.

Judging by Sacassaia’s album cover for Sampleando Deus e o Mundo (Sampling God and the World), polyglot, pan-Latino electro hip hop/dancehall is kinda ugly, even a little scary-looking. The LP art--depicting a half dashiki half collared-shirt wearing, three-arm having, grimacing composite of about

Listen up ladies of hip hop and then men who love them! Soultana, the rap goddess of Morocco, is making a rare State-side appearance. Come check out the controversial artist who shocked her nation as a member of Moroccan female rap trio Tigresse Flow. Now X hip hop X Middle-East X Morocco X...

  1. Please tell the people a little bit about Dj Nio, how you came into the culture, and a quick description of where you are at currently? I'm from Genoa (Genova), Italy, and I'm a dj, mc, producer and Hip-Hop Activist. I started spinning records and writing my first rap in 1993, after

David Dallas is a hip hop gamechanger. After topping New Zealand iTunes charts, the born-and-raised kiwi MC has signed to Duck Down Records, an American label reserved for the greats. Through his album Something Awesome and EP Something Now, he's garnered hip hop fans of every creed with

The annual Black August Hip Hop Project benefit concert has a history of hosting extraordinary artists from Dave Chapelle to Erykah Badu, and 2011 was no different. This year's event, dedicated to the cause of freeing American political prisoners, incarcerated Black Panthers in particular, was

The votes are in and it looks like our Artist of the Week for this week is Los Rakas! The rapping Panamanians will be featured on the MTV Iggy homepage for the rest of the week, and they'll also get a little love from MTVMusic.com. Los Rakas combine the sounds of hip hop with dancehall...

  The economy isn't the only thing growing like wildfire in China. China's fast growing hip-hop scene has been taking off at lightning speed over the past few years. No one knows more about this vibrant scene than Fulbright Scholar and Chinese Hip-Hop expert: Angela Steele. Angela graduated

Como Asesinar a Felipes is a true hip hop standout. In an age when the genre's either riffing the 90s or overproduced pop, these dudes are going way back...to the roaring 20s. The quintet fuses hip hop with experimental jazz. Real jazz. Orchestral jazz. Think brass, brushes, freestyle cymbals, and

Pro-democracy rebels continue to fight Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces in Libya as US and European forces attack the dictator's troops and aircraft. Meanwhile, in the revolutionary stronghold of Benghazi, two young Libyan men have written a defiant hip hop anthem for the uprising. Twenty year-old

Sacassaia's debut album, Sampleando Deus e o Mundo (Sampling God and the World) established the Brazilian electro hip hop group as global fusion heavy weights. Named for an aggressive species of ant, DJ/producers Geraldo Horta, Gabriel Reis (Gardenel), and Tony Roballo do their arthropod namesake

Young hip-hop heart breaker Mo'cheddah just took an MTV Africa Music Award home to Nigeria. She won the hotly contested title of Brand:New Artist. That means a whole continent is smitten with the MC/vocalist's drop-dead good looks, spot on stage-name, and blend of modern R&B, hip-hop swagger,

Astronautalis is an MC out of Minneapolis arguably redefining hip hop. From battle rapper to globetrotting storyteller, Astronautalis -- real name Andy Bothwell -- genre hops from rapid-fire rhymes to hymnals to ballads, citing everything from Russian chemists to modernist American authors, all

French producer Onra is putting together a whopping 32-instrumental track compilation combining hip hop beats with vinyl from Southeast Asia. Chinoiseries -- the second part of a two-part series that dropped in 2007 -- samples sounds from China and Vietnam (the latter the heritage of Onra's

It appears that Finland is the new West Coast, USA. Except for that whole crime thing. The Megaphone State from Helsinki is dropping some delicious Golden Age hip hop derived from soul, not from typical 90s machinery. Long drooping basslines, a touch of funk, crackling vinyl, and slow, actual

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Diddy recently added Machine Gun Kelly and French Montana to the roster at Bad Records, but he has no plans to stop there. His latest addition is Baltimore rapper Los.