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Hip-hop

November 2025

  • Amyl and the Sniffers win best group during the 2025 Aria awards.

    Amyl and the Sniffers dominate 2025 Arias with four wins: ‘Probably won’t have to work at IGA ever again’

    Rock band take home album of the year while electronic breakthrough Ninajirachi wins best solo artist from a leading eight nominations
  • Detroit rapper Danny Brown.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Danny Brown: Stardust review – hyperpop-rap powered up with post-rehab positivity

    The Detroit rapper feared his music would get dull after he went sober, but no-one could be bored by this guest-stuffed, chaotically swaggering new album
  • Sudan Archives wearing a sci-fi-style bodysuit with a tech tool belt, posing as if dancing, with her braids flung upwards.

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Sudan Archives: ‘My favourite fact? I’m 100% that bitch’

    The violin-playing sonic experimentalist on gadgets, guilty pleasures, and her most controversial pop culture opinion

October 2025

  • Knucks in Nigeria.

    ‘They said I didn’t belong here’: rap star Knucks on his uprooted childhood – and why he records bus conductors

  • Rapper Dave plays a harp in a black and white shot.

    Dave: The Boy Who Played the Harp review – ​it’s clearer than ever what a stunningly skilled rapper he is

  • Huey Morgan playing a guitar in 1982

    Flashback
    Huey Morgan looks back: ‘My father left when I was seven. Music was a way to derail those feelings of not being good enough’

  • Pitbull on stage at Fridayz Live Brisbane.

    Fridayz Live Sydney review – Mariah Carey is impeccable but Pitbull steals the show

  • Stormzy elected honorary fellow of Jesus College Cambridge

  • Little Simz review – hip-hop visionary radiates joy and Gallagher-level swagger

  • Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group dismissed

  • double quotation markI judged this year’s Welsh music prize – and Don Leisure’s winning album sums up the nation’s eclectic spirit

    Tim Jonze

  • ‘I want to hear harmonica in the strip club!’: the bold ideas and bleak visions of British musician Klein

  • Guardian Australia's headline act
    Baker Boy on naming his album for his grandmother: ‘She was the reason that I fell in love with hip-hop’

  • Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs calls behavior ‘disgusting’ and apologizes ahead of sentencing

  • Rapper who joined Trump at rally jailed for five years for attempted murder

September 2025

  • The Australian rapper says he doubts a generative AI tool could 'make a fake Briggs track'

    Briggs on AI replacing him: it doesn't know 'what a lounge room in Shepparton smells like' – video

    The Australian rapper says he doubts a generative AI tool could 'make a fake Briggs track'
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  • KeiyaA, photographed by Jessica Foley

    ‘I just want to shake my tail feather’: how KeiyaA shut out the noise to make one of the year’s best albums

    The pressure of besting her self-released debut – and becoming a public figure – made the US vocalist spiral. Remembering who she was inspired her phenomenal second LP, a comparison-defying odyssey of jazz, pop and club music

    • Cardi B: Am I the Drama? review – vigorous score-settling and brutally witty put-downs

    • MTV VMAs 2025 winners: Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter triumph at muted award ceremony

    • Gorillaz review – after 25 years, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon band are still riveting and relevant

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