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JUST BECAUSE So Solid Crew are paranoid, it doesn't mean someone isn't after them. Since the 30-odd-strong UK garage cartel emerged from Battersea in south ...

Cookie Crew: Some Cookies Don't Crumble

Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Guardian, 21 June 1989

British rap is taken seriously in the States largely due to the Cookie Crew. Sheryl Garratt found out why ...

Fannypack: Beastie girls

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 6 October 2003

Fannypack are young, smutty and fresh — and they might just make hip-hop fun again. Caroline Sullivan meets them. ...

Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Snoop Doggy Dogg

Profile and Interview by David Bennun, The Guardian, November 1996

"I'M GONNA live forever," says the man slumped in the chair opposite, his voice so soft it's barely more than a mumble. Nobody has ever ...

Azealia Banks, Dominique Young Unique, Reema Major, Lady Leshurr, Kreayshawn: Azealia Banks and the charge of the women MCs

Report and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 5 January 2012

Watch out, Nicki Minaj, there's a host of feisty, eccentric female rappers on your trail – and not all of them are here to pay their ...

A Tribe Called Quest return: "You fight for what you love — and you go through hell to get it"

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 17 November 2016

Eighteen years after their last album, the hip-hop legends are back with a record that reunites original members Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jarobi White and ...

David Bowie, Kendrick Lamar, Courtney Pine, Kamasi Washington, GoGo Penguin, Thundercat, Robert Glasper, Shabaka Hutchings, Comet Is Coming, The, Sons of Kemet, Donny McCaslin: The new cool: how Kamasi, Kendrick and co gave jazz a new groove

Essay by John Lewis, The Guardian, 6 October 2016

A generation of jazz musicians has grown up with hip-hop in its blood. The result is the thrilling reinvention of a genre that has been ...