Tall Paul: Interview with Anishinaabe Rapper
Anishinaabe rapper Tall Paul came across the RPM Radar last week via a Colorlines post on Midwest Rappers Showing Love for Their Indigenous Ojibwe Language. After getting put on to Point of Contact, an...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: Heath McNease ft. RedCloud – “Chopstlevania”
Holy fast-flowing wordplay and quick-changing cadence madness from two dynamic hip-hop artists Heath McNease and famed Huichol MC RedCloud. This track is straight fire. We love the 8-bit videogame,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Don Amero –“Right Where I Wanna Be”
The gifted songwriting of Métis musician Don Amero gets a rich visual treatment in Amero’s first-ever, official video for his new single “Right Where I Wanna Be”. This incredibly catchy tune offers...
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Honor the Treaties: Pine Ridge Poster Project Takes Over Seattle and New York
Acclaimed photographer, Aaron Huey, has partnered with visual artist Ernesto Yerena, and “the most prolific street artist working in America”, Shepard Fairey, on an incredible new street art project to...
View ArticleNo Doubt Remove Racist ‘Looking Hot’ Video and Apologize After Indigenous Outcry
As the firestorm of controversy over No Doubt’s new native appropriating and flagrantly racist video “Looking Hot” (or perhaps, better, “Lookin’ Racist”) began raging to a boil across social media on...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: A Tribe Called Red –“Trapline EP”
Ottawa’s hardest working and most prolific Indigenous DJ and electronic music production crew, A Tribe Called Red, have had a huge year—and to celebrate their success, they’ve dropped the brand new...
View ArticleSTREAM: Heebz The Earthchild –“Idle No More”
Leave it our boys Mob Bounce from the West Coast to drop one of the first Indigenous hip-hop tracks to draw directly from the spirit of the emerging #IdleNoMore movement and turn it into music. One...
View ArticlePhotos and Videos of The Round Dance Revolution: Idle No More
As a companion piece to Ryan McMahon’s amazing post, The Round Dance Revolution: Idle No More, here is a collection of photos and videos that we are curating from across the web and around the world....
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: A Tribe Called Red –“The Road”
Late last night, on the eve before one of the biggest Indigenous mobilizations in history, A Tribe Called Red quietly released a new song, The Road, inspired by the Idle No More movement and the hunger...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: The #NationHood Mixtape
Combining the voices of many struggles, peoples and nations, the #NationHood Mixtape brings together an amazing array of hip-hop, spoken word, beats, ideas and sounds from artists across the world....
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DOWNLOAD: Tall Paul –“The Show (Act I & II)”
The prolific and talented Anishinaabe MC Tall Paul drops a new two-part track, “The Show (Act 1 &2)”, reflecting on Dave Chappelle, encounters with stardom, and maintaining integrity in the...
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Angel Haze Reveals ‘Dirty Gold’ Details: Debut Album Featuring A Tribe Called...
Cherokee MC, spitfire rap sensation, and rising hip-hop star, Angel Haze, has revealed details about her upcoming debut album, Dirty Gold, that will feature her collaboration with Indigenous...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: Invasion Day 2014 Mixtape
The Brisbane Blacks, an independent non-profit First Nations publication based in occupied ‘Australia’, has brought together a bombastic roster of Indigenous hip-hop musicians, spoken word artists, and...
View ArticleTanya Tagaq Remixes ‘Nanook of the North’
Acclaimed Inuk throat singer, Tanya Tagaq, is currently touring a performance that reclaims and re-imagines the deeply stereotypical 1922 silent film, Nanook of the North, with a new score and live...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: Impossible Nothing – “Buckin'”
The many sonic and aesthetic incarnations of Impossible Nothing find their latest expression in this hype new instrumental track. Darwin Frost, aka Bishop, aka X-Man, aka D’arcy aka Impossible Nothing,...
View ArticleSTREAM: Princess Nokia – “YAYA”
Rising experimental hip-hop artist Princess Nokia drops an electro-rap dedication to her Taíno roots and ancestry. Falling somewhere between the melodic song-rap of Santigold and the electronic world...
View ArticleListen to City Natives’ new album Red City
Rising east coast hip-hop crew City Natives are back with Red City, a new album of aggressive and confident hip-hop. Following the swagger and sway of their potent 2013 debut, 4 Kingz, the quartet of...
View ArticlePat Boy: Mayan Rap is Bringing the Culture Back
All over the globe, Indigenous MCs and hip-hop artists are using the furious force of rhymes to express, represent and revitalize their original languages and cultures. And Mayan MCs, like 22-year-old...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Stream Silver Jackson’s New Album “Starry Skies Opened Eyes”
Silver Jackson’s remarkable new album, Starry Skies Opened Eyes, bursts with life and an artful spirit of experimentation. Welcome to the future-now sounds of Indigenous expansion. Silver Jackson is...
View ArticleNative North America: Revolutionary Recordings by Indigenous Artists from...
Light in the Attic Records is preparing to release the “most ambitious and historically significant project” in the label’s history: Native North America—a 34-track compilation of music from the...
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