As the Recording Academy honors Fela Kuti posthumously, it reminds us that culture doesn’t wait for institutions to catch up. Contributing to that introduction is the recent rise of lo-fi hip-hop ...

In our Beat Building series, we're showing you how to produce beats, grooves and drum patterns in a variety of styles and genres, touching on various eras of production, to help you understand the key ...

Slowed and reverb and lo-fi hip-hop share some distinct similarities, with both subgenres birthing their own subcultures online, and becoming the soundtrack to Generation Z. On TikTok, the hashtag for ...

On Saturday, ChilledCow’s YouTube account was terminated for not complying with the site’s terms of service. The popular channel streams lo-fi hip-hop beats, and ...

This calls for music to celebrate/chill to. Lofi Girl—the animated star of the popular YouTube channel of the same name, which provides users with a 24/7 livestream of lo-fi hip-hop music—has ...

Dion Lewis was trying to make the best out of a difficult situation. Last August, when a storm left his Chicago neighborhood without electricity for a week, he improvised. Lewis had recently created a ...

Corgi chills out on a bed in a cucumber slumber. It’s a music trend in search of a name. Buzz words like “Chill Hop” and “Jazz Hop” don’t quite capture the essence of this new genre that has no rap in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though the term 'lo-fi' was thrown around, back then, it was more of a descriptor of a no-frills sonic aesthetic than any sort of ...

Disney has released a compilation of some of its biggest hits reimagined as lo-fi hip hop instrumentals, curated by the studio's very own Minnie Mouse. The compilation album contains reworked classics ...

She may be 94 years old, but Minnie Mouse still has her finger on the pulse when it comes to the latest trends. Mickey’s girlfriend has put together an album of covers of some of Disney’s greatest ...