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...

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

  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

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...

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

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

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,

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

In the world of music, the word “cover” invokes thoughts of bad singing and a fuzzy webcam. Yuna, a folk popper from Malaysia, changed our minds with her smooth,...

In the world of music, the word “cover” invokes thoughts of bad singing and a fuzzy webcam. Yuna, a folk popper from Malaysia, changed our minds with her smooth,...

They call their sound “psychedelic cumbia,” and we called them a “freight train at full speed” at SXSW...and it’s all true. Whatever you’ve heard...

It could be called reggae time -- a slow unfurling of temporal reality as time as a metronomic concept loses meaning and becomes something more elastic and less measurable.

Jamaica is known for the endlessly creative permutations of its music, from ska to dub to dancehall. But there are things about the Island's musical culture that remain hidden. For instance, American country music is way popular there and one of its finest young and up-and-coming music groups is a

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...

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

Bamako, Mali’s hip hop/acoustic trio SMOD are criminally slept on in the West, as is their self-titled third album. Nacional Records just announced plans to try to give the Manu Chao produced gem by giving it a proper North American release.

Everyone knows the legendary Konono # 1 but how many of know the masterful Belgian based Congolese MC Baloji? Now you do. Here, Baloji mashes up some Konono tracks on this banger and holds it down with some amazing video production to boot. BALOJI feat. KONONO n1 - KARIBU YA BINTOU from BALOJI on

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

Nujabes is a Japanese hip-hop and Jazz musician, DJ, producuer, he passed away at a young age of 36, in a car accident in Tokyo. Nujabes created a buzz about Japanese music in club scene and paved the way for many other artists to the world. He was one of the most prolific contributors to...

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