Music video premiere — Awate premieres 'Uncontrollable Dopeness' on Huck and talks about confronting racism on the streets and his family’s freedom fighting heritage.
Written by: Alex King
Positive cynicism — Chicago band Twin Peaks may be known as party bros who make chill sounds but, off record, they pack some serious political bite about a country in flux.
Written by: Cian Traynor
The Revolution Won't be Televised — Filmmaker Rama Thiaw documented how rappers Thiat and Kilifeu led Senegal’s Y’en a Marre youth resistance movement to topple despised president Abdoulaye Wade.
Written by: Alex King
Patriarchy is boring — Russian punk activists Pussy Riot release a new song that hails the vagina in all it’s glory at a crucial time in global politics.
Written by: Ella Guthrie
Sweet like Tropicana — Dizzee Rascal performs his debut 2003 album end-to-end at London's Copper Box Arena, for a special Red Bull Music Academy show.
Written by: Gabriela Helfet
Feel the noise — Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen pays tribute to Norway’s Black Metal scene with up-close portraits of the scene’s most incendiary vocalists.
Written by: Alex King
A serious slice of attitude — Having shot to attention for being an openly gay rapper with a dirty mind, Cakes da Killa is steering attention back to where it should be: his skills on the mic.
Written by: Cian Traynor
Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan — To celebrate Bob Dylan being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, we dug out this interview with Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan from Huck 40 - The Cat Power Issue.
Written by: Shelley Jones
Radio that changed lives — From Nas to Jay Z, Eminem to Notorious B.I.G., some of the biggest rappers got their start on an independent, underground radio show in the middle of the night. Now its story is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
Written by: Cian Traynor
Footwork and Fireworks — A new wave of consciousness is sweeping the streets of Cairo, fuelled by fireworks and electro beats.
Written by: Pauline Beugnies