Too $hort and E-40 propelled the hyphy movement to national fame with ‘Tell Me When to Go.’ Now, Red Bull dives into the roots of the Bay Area-born genre. Red ...

October 25, 2022 marks the third anniversary of the launch of the Rightnowish podcast! First formed as a radio show in early 2019, Rightnowish, the podcast launched in late October of the same year.

Charlie Hustle. Forty-Water. Forty-Fonzerelli. E-Fizzle. E-Bonics. E-Pheezy. The Ballatician. Ambassador of the Bay. Forty Belafonte. Earl Stevenson. A man of many monikers, there’s only one E-40. “My ...

he year 2006 was a wild one in the Bay Area, especially if, like me, you were into hip-hop. The scene was dominated by the hyphy movement, a youth culture driven by uptempo music, oversized airbrushed ...

Laurence Madrigal’s debut documentary originated as a passion project that was envisioned as a 15-minute ode to a music scene he was drawn to. The focus was on the hyphy movement that emerged out of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Bay Area music producer is being remembered as a powerhouse responsible for a cultural movement known as hyphy. Traxamillion, aka, Sultan Banks, died Sunday of cancer at an aunt's ...

"Let me tell you a story, about a movement that almost was ..." It only takes a few seconds. The first throb of bass, the palpitations of the 808s, the bars spoken through gold teeth. From the ears, ...

I can't remember the first time I heard a Traxamillion song, but I always knew when it was his. My fellow Bay Area natives agree; for homegrown '90s babies, it seems like he was always there, pumping ...

SAN JOSE (CBS SF) -- A Bay Area hip-hop mainstay who was a major producer behind the "hyphy movement" during the 2000s, San Jose beatmaker Traxamillion has died at age 43, according to social media ...

Berkeley's the Pack reject the notion that they are a hyphy group. Instead, they claim to have created a new genre called based. “Based music is really just feel-good music,” says the Pack's Brandon ...