On International Mother Language Day, we look at how rap and hip-hop artists are mixing languages and spreading a vernacular that captures the contemporary Francophone world: multi-ethnic, ...

Music historians agree that the birth of hip-hop culture happened on 11 August 1973 in an apartment in the Bronx, a New York City borough. Since then, the movement has gone through five decades of ...

France has long been the largest market for rap outside of the US but it has been noticeably absent from the country's mainstream awards. The first awards ceremony in France for rap, R&B and Afrobeats ...

(From L) Members of 4Keus Gang rap music band, Bne, Djeffi and HK pose during a photo call prior to the first edition of "Les Flammes" music award ceremony at the Chatelet Theatre, in Paris, on May 11 ...

To mark 50 years of hip hop, FRANCE 24’s culture team has recorded three special shows in New York – the birthplace of the culture. In part four of the series we’re in Paris, because France is the ...

This is a small section of a far longer text about music, called "Some Musical Notes" which was originally published on the old endangered phoenix site. It was published at the beginning of 2006.

On International Mother Language Day, we look at how rap and hip-hop artists are mixing languages and spreading a vernacular that captures the contemporary Francophone world: multi-ethnic, ...