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10 Ukrainian Rappers You Need to Know
To be a rapper in Ukraine means perpetually making high-stakes decisions that have immediate consequences. Do you rap in Ukrainian and appeal to a country still ironing out its Post-Soviet identity,...
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We Tested Recipes From Questlove’s ‘Mixtape Potluck’ Cookbook So You Don’t...
If you’ve ever been invited to a potluck dinner party and struggled for inspiration on what dish to make, The Roots frontman and drummer Questlove has your back. This week marks the release of his new...
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This Is How Vagabon Starts Her Day
How I Start My Day is a series revealing the intimate details and wisdom behind the morning rituals of successful characters in youth culture and beyond. To know Laetitia Tamko is to be seen fully in...
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Swae Lee Is Our Generation’s Ultimate Optimist
Swae Lee shows up to a Venice Beach gallery, emptied of its art, almost three hours late with a huge smile on his face and six people in tow. From the outside, their roles appear happily undefined but...
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Meet Rema, the 19-Year-Old the Obamas Put on Their Summer Playlist
In less than a year, Rema has seen his dreams become reality, moving from a struggling musician in the backwaters of Nigeria to impressing Barack Obama and packing venues across the world. Now, he...
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We Joined Keinemusik at ADE to Celebrate 10 Years of Good Vibes and Safe Spaces
Visit the original post to see all 15 images from this gallery. Last week, marking the release of a very special edition of Highsnobiety Magazine Issue 19, we joined Berlin techno heroes Keinemusik...
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‘Jesus Is King’ and the Rebirth of Kanye West
There’s a lot to be said for an artist with their back against the wall. Fenced in by financial circumstances or contractual disputes or the unrelenting march of time, a lingering threat of losing...
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Is Ageism’s Foothold in Hip-Hop Observable or Internalized?
This piece appears as part of our initiative on Identity & Representation, a six-month-long project highlighting different facets of identity and how they shape the practices, conventions, and...
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King Princess Is Dead, Long Live the Cheap Queen
FRONTPAGE is Highsnobiety’s weekly online cover story exploring the people, moments, and ideas shaping culture today. For the fourth edition of our series, Highsnobiety’s Bianca Giulione talks to...
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The 25 Scariest Rap Verses
It’s Halloween week, which means it’s time to subject oneself to haunted houses, scary movies, seances, and anything else that is likely to induce a heart attack or nightmare. It’s also time to listen...
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Dodgr’s Story Is Just Beginning
Alana Chenevert is a writer at heart. She tells me this over the phone as she rattles off scribes who have influenced her: Tim Robbins, David Sedaris, Shakespeare. Better known as Dodgr (formerly...
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The 25 Most Underrated Rap Releases of the 2010s
As everyone and their cat analyzes the best rap albums of the decade, the same choices seem to be cropping up over and over again. Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is given holy reverence...
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Discover the Best of Accra, Ghana With Rising Afrobeats Star Ghetto Boy
The Highsnobiety Soundsystem Curator Series invites metropolitan DJs, curators and musicians to guide us through unmissable spots in their city – each time with an exclusively curated playlist that...
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Welcome to the Weird Wide World of Vegyn
Much like the hermit, Vegyn is a creature that finds comfort in solitude. When he descends from the stairs of the Standard Oil Building on a dreary morning in October, he pulls up solo—there’s no...
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Travis Scott Cements His Status as a Curatorial Genius at Astroworld Festival...
Visit the original post to see all 13 images from this gallery. In numerous scenes from Look Mom, I Can Fly, his 2019 Netflix documentary, a young Travis Scott can be seen joyfully moving around...
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Is Brexit to Blame for British Rap’s First Golden Era?
“Bruv, this is how mad it is right now: Highsnobiety are ringing me asking about politics,” says DrillMinister, his smirking disbelief coming loud and clear down the phone line. “Our Prime Minister...
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Yasiin Bey, FKA Mos Def, Steps Off His Spaceship to Tell Us About His New Album
FRONTPAGE is Highsnobiety’s weekly online cover story exploring the people, moments, and ideas shaping culture today. For the sixth edition of our series, Xerxes Cook meets up with Yasiin Bey at the...
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Eric Nam Is Redefining the Role of the International Pop Star
There’s an air of untouchability to idol culture in Korea. K-pop’s biggest stars are part of such flawlessly executed packages — both in terms of their music and public image — that sometimes it’s hard...
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Solange Shows How She’s the Director of Her Own Universe With Bridge-s
Perched in the Santa Monica mountains of Los Angeles is The Getty Center, a palatial open-air expanse made up of curvilinear architecture, idyllic gardens, and 16,000 tons of stone, housing multiple...
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Revisiting Rihanna’s ‘Rated R’: A Renaissance Era
“I’m such a fucking lady!” The eminent line from “Wait Your Turn” was originally conceived as the title for Rihanna’s contentious fourth album, converging the causticity running through her life into...
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