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My Current Song: Sam V - Wired
Our guest today for My Current Song is Auckland-based singer/songwriter Sam V. He's been releasing music and making videos for a cool decade, and has a new one that's soared online in the teeth of a… Audio
How rap music is helping to reduce mental health stigma
Rappers are at the forefront of opening up the mental health conversation, with a new study showing that over the past 20 years, the lyrics of the most popular rap songs have been increasingly hitting… Video, Audio
Drake the video game
Rapper and video game developer ya boy sprightly has been getting a lot of attention recently for his RPG video game The Legend Of Drake.
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Drake live at Spark Arena: all bravado and cheekiness
Drake's Auckland concert was his first in five months, and the first stop of this leg of the Boy Meets World Tour, but there were no signs of rustiness from the rapper at his concert at Spark Arena.
The definitive list of this summer's big gigs
It's one of the most crowded summers of music New Zealand has ever seen. Here's a list of the big gigs coming up between now and April. So far we count 74.
Name UL: teenage hip hop
Kim Hill talks to Emanuel John Psathas, aka rapper Name UL, who was performing in licensed venues before he was old enough to legally drink in them, and has opened for a number of international acts… Audio
The Sampler for 17 May
In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger discusses the innovations and irritations of Canadian-born rapper Drake; a set of surreal and romantic duets by Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop; and a New York-inspired… Audio
Views by Drake
Nick Bollinger discusses the innovations and irritations of Canadian-born rapper Drake. Audio
The Mixtape: Eddie Johnston AKA Lontalius/Race Banyon
Eddie Johnston makes us a mixtape of tracks that inspires his dual musical personalities: Lontalius and Race Banyon. Audio
Six60's Matiu Walters Live in Session
Ahead of a summer tour that starts in Taranaki tonight, Six60 frontman Matiu Walters joins Sam Wicks in studio for the re-up. Audio
Earl Sweatshirt
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, better known as Earl Sweatshirt, has one of the sharpest tongues of a new school of West Coast hip hop artists, and he's directed it towards a psychiatry checklist of neuroses… Audio
The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop
As a musical genre built on wordplay, hip hop is home to some of the wordiest lyricists about. New York data scientist Matthew Daniels took it upon himself to work out just how wordy rappers are… Audio