Hip hop and block parties have always been tied at the hip. The Grammy-winning rap group Orishas headlined such an event before thousands of their fellow Cubans on the streets of Havana in March 2018, ...

It took me a little while to get into this one. El Kilo, the third installment from Cuban rap superheroes Orishas, maintains the group’s ability to create beautifully melodic hip-hop from traditional ...

On broiling summer days more than a decade ago, teenagers here spent hours watching breakdancing on “Soul Train” and listening to American rap floating across the radio waves from Florida. Then they ...

Raced neoliberalism : groundings for hip hop -- Hip hop Cubano : an emergent site of Black life -- New revolutionary horizons -- Critical self-fashionings and their gendering -- Racial challenges and ...