DALY CITY, Calif. -- Two Northern California siblings, left with nothing but time on their hands as they shelter in place during the novel coronavirus pandemic, have made their musical debut with a ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, an ongoing KQED series about Bay Area hip-hop history. A-Wax had just gotten out of jail when he decided to hit up a hotel party in Concord. The ...

Andy Kawanami and Chuy Gomez (left to right) hosted ‘Hip Hop Friday’ on the California Music Channel in the ’90s. The channel became a crucial outlet for Bay Area rappers on their way to national ...

For the first time since the great hyphy explosion of the mid-2000s, Bay Area rap can claim a new figurehead — a centripetal artist with an energizing signature sound. That artist is Trackademicks, a ...

In the Bay Area rap scene you can still find glimpses of the genre alive in its purest form. The region’s hip-hop culture is known for its independence and insular spirit born of a combination of pimp ...