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 ...

It's easy to identify hyphy music, but it's not so easy to chart its origins and evolution. In an attempt to compile the genre's “oral history,” Complex gathered ...

October 25, 2022 marks the third anniversary of the launch of the Rightnowish podcast! First formed as a radio show in early 2019, Rightnowish, the podcast launched in late October of the same year.

WHEN veteran rapper E-40’s wildly infectious single “Tell Me When to Go” became a hit in early 2006, it turned the urban music industry’s spotlight on hyphy, a cultural movement created in Oakland ...

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 ...

Charlie Hustle. Forty-Water. Forty-Fonzerelli. E-Fizzle. E-Bonics. E-Pheezy. The Ballatician. Ambassador of the Bay. Forty Belafonte. Earl Stevenson. A man of many monikers, there’s only one E-40. “My ...

When it comes to cultural exports of the Bay Area, hyphy is in a league of its own. The subgenre of hip-hop has an up-tempo, hyperactive beat that makes you want to dance. In the early 2000s, artists ...

DALY CITY – DJ Rick Lee “The Dragon” didn’t have to go looking for a career in the music business. The business came looking for him. That’s not to say the 37-year-old disc-jockey, who spins every ...

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, ...

Laurence Madrigal’s debut documentary originated as a passion project that was envisioned as a 15-minute ode to a music scene he was drawn to. The focus was on the hyphy movement that emerged out of ...

For the last few years, 26-year-old bedroom producer, YP on The Beat, has been working on a new Yay Area sound, one that combines the booming, gloopy sound of hyphy, with the regimented high hat and ...

Petaluma's Phoenix Theater is canceling gangster-style rap concerts following a fight in which a teenager was arrested outside with a loaded gun, officials said Tuesday. The ban on music often seen as ...