The Crocodile might’ve waddled a few blocks north, but opposite the old venue at Second Avenue and Blanchard Street, a new music night is taking shape in the heart of Belltown. In the summer of 2024, ...

While rap music was born in the 1970s with groups like The Sugarhill Gang, it was codified in the 1980s with outfits like Run-DMC. But it was the 1990s when everything fell into place and the genre ...

Kendrick Lamar has consistently been known as one of the world’s most prominent storytellers and a rooted artist in hip-hop’s fertile history. GNX is an immersion into 90s hip-hop and R&B-the golden ...

Some believe the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and the ...

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 ...

While 2025 has offered up plenty of new releases from Memphis and Mid-South artists, it also provided a remarkable trove of reissues for fans of the city’s rich musical history. From Sun Records ...

The Transformers film franchise has gained acclaim for its memorable soundtrack, and this month, as we commemorate 50 years of hip-hop, Transformers: Rise of The Beasts celebrates the iconic genre ...

In the ’90s, Hip-Hop music really began to take over the music industry, even though it was still dismissed by some older generations as “noise” and “not real music.” However, not everyone in the ...