End the Year Listening to Rising Indigenous Artist Mato Wayuhi

Growing up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Oglala Lakota artist Mato Wayuhi—both an actor in and composer for the series ...
WAPT

Jackson native Courtland Liddell wins Grammy for mixing gospel rap song

16 WAPT'S CRYSTAL HAS MORE ON HIS JOURNEY AND HOW THIS ALL CAME TO BE. NAT TRACK JACKSON NATIVE, COURTLAND LIDDELL SHARES HIS EXCITEMENT AFTER WINNING HIS FIRST GRAMMY AS A MIXING ENGINEER. SOT ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota's native rap scene profiled in Vice's new Apple Music series

Vice Media and Apple Music have teamed up to create an ambitious new documentary series called "The Score," which will feature music-related stories from Brazil, Iceland and Vietnam. The first ...
inforum

Spirit Lake rapper amplifies voices of Native youth

FARGO — Stuart James, a hip-hop artist from the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, raps about important issues that affect Native communities. The 30-year-old started off as a shy kid. Though he ...
inforum

Spreading the word: Project uses translated rap music as means for younger American Indians to learn native language

Tammy DeCoteau devotes much of her time thinking about how she can coax children into doing something that came naturally to their great-grandparents: speak in their native Dakota language. In recent ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Q&A: Local artists pay tribute to Native Tongues rap acts

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Nappy DJ Needles (Handout) The Native Tongues, a revered collective of progressive rap acts that includes A Tribe Called Quest, ...
Post-Bulletin

Seen & Heard: Rochester native's musical work gets a good rap

LaidEe P, aka Jas Hardy, is a nominee to repeat as winner of the Female Rap Artist of the Year at the Twin Cities Urban Music Awards. The Rochester native and 2006 graduate of John Marshall High ...