Jorja Smith Fans Need Bigger Venue to Express Themselves (Photo Gallery and Concert Review)
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content producer In general, the Grammies are not the best measure of artistry....
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Kane Comes to Baltimore, Baltimoreans Turn on Each Other (Concert Review and Photo Gallery)
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content director Cataloguing the career of a certified legend like Big Daddy Kane...
Driscoe on the Real: Adoption, Bipolar Disorder, Hip-Hop
In the latest episode of on the Real, Baltimore’s Driscoe tells the story of his battle with bipolar...
BX Producer/Emcee Trapadari on the Real: Why His Father Taught Him Knowledge of Self, to Be an Autodidact
In the latest episode of on the Real, BX producer/emcee Trapadari discusses his upbringing in the Boogie Down,...
Freddie Gibbs Brings Skill and Polish to Baltimore’s Ottobar (Concert Review and Photo Gallery)
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content producer Hip-hop inarguably began on the streets of the east coast, in...
Factz Shows Up, Blu Gives Subdued Performance, at Songbyrd Music House (Concert Review and Photo Gallery)
By Jack M. Angleo, senior content director A few months ago, when StayUp.News covered PnB Rock’s Baltimore concert...
Hobo Johnson and the LoveMakers Bring Their Unique Take on Hip-Hop to the Fillmore (Concert Review and Photo Gallery)
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content creator Spoken word, poetry, rap and hip-hop have been inexorably linked since...
Flatbush, BK’s Raticus on New Album with Ruste Juxx, “King of Crime Heights”
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down with Flatbush, BK, producer Raticus (above, in a photo by...
Think “Real” Hip-Hop Is Dead? Where Were You at the Brother Ali Show? (Concert Review and Photo Gallery)
By Jack M. Angelo, senior content editor If you think “real” hip-hop is dead, then there are two...
We Will Not Be Silent: An Attack on Jews Is an Attack on All of Us
By Roberto E. Alejandro, editor-in-chief The postcolonial theorist Frantz Fanon, a Black man from the island of Martinique,...