"Let me tell you a story, about a movement that almost was ..." It only takes a few seconds. The first throb of bass, the palpitations of the 808s, the bars spoken through gold teeth. From the ears, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A documentary that takes a look back at the rise of a remarkable hip-hop subculture in the Bay Area two decades ago, the new film "We Were Hyphy" is set to be screened as ...

"The New Bay movement was goin' on right when the Hyphy Movement started." The word hyphy—short for hyperactive—was first uttered on a song by Oakland rapper Keak Da Sneak. Initially, the slang term ...

Too $hort and E-40 propelled the hyphy movement to national fame with ‘Tell Me When to Go.’ Now, Red Bull dives into the roots of the Bay Area-born genre. Red ...

East Oakland, Calif. — IN the early morning hours most weekends, finding hyphy isn’t difficult, it’s just a matter of knowing what to look for. Pull off Interstate 580 near the San Leandro line and ...

"When hyphy first started, hyphy wasn’t cool. So, my definition has always been turning a negative into a positive." —Keak da Sneak In the mid-2000’s a sound emerged out of the Bay Area that would ...

Imagine a sideshow. Visualize a place for everyone to “stunt” or to show off their high performance muscle cars with a snake-like line of about 300 cars coursing in the street. Hear the music blaring, ...

Corte Madera town officials pledged before an overflow crowd Tuesday night to get to the bottom of last week’s melee after a “hyphy” dance party that left five teenagers hurt. Mayor Melissa Gill told ...

Two guns, and possibly a third, were displayed at a March 3 recreation center “hyphy” dance party that turned into a melee, police concluded in a report to be presented to the Corte Madera Town ...

*With less than 13 minutes remaining in a 45-20 blowout win over the New York Jets, Marshawn Lynch of the Oakland Raiders broke out in dance on the sideline. Fans at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum ...