Want more? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered straight to your inbox. The multiple arrests last year in an alleged national drug ring marked an infamous milestone for a ...

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 ...

It's easy to identify hyphy music, but it's not so easy to chart its origins and evolution. In an attempt to compile the genre's “oral history,” Complex gathered ...

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 ...

When it comes to cultural exports of the Bay Area, hyphy is in a league of its own. The subgenre of hip-hop has an up-tempo, hyperactive beat that makes you want to dance. In the early 2000s, artists ...

"If the Bay and Atlanta would of shook hands and agreed that we could've all make this sound and push it forward, I think it would of went further." —Iamsu! The fiercely independent nature of the Bay ...

WHEN veteran rapper E-40’s wildly infectious single “Tell Me When to Go” became a hit in early 2006, it turned the urban music industry’s spotlight on hyphy, a cultural movement created in Oakland ...

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 ...

East Oakland, Calif. — IN the early morning hours most weekends, finding hyphy isn’t difficult, it’s just a matter of knowing what to look for. Pull off Interstate 580 near the San Leandro line and ...

Back in 2006, there was one question that was on everyone's minds outside of the Bay Area: What's ghost riding? Interest in the activity — where someone drives a car at a low speed and then jumps out ...