Teyana Taylor took over Red Bull’s Instagram live on Thursday, and she held a virtual screening for her new documentary, Assembly Required: Teyana Taylor’s House of Petunia. Red Bull put together the project which is described as an “unfiltered look into the creative process for Teyana’s iconic performance at Red Bull Music Festival New York.” […]
Today, Red Bull releases the official trailer for the upcoming full-length documentary Assembly Required: Teyana Taylor’s House of Petunia. The 60-minute unfiltered film stars cultural icon, Teyana Taylor, and will grant fans a front-row seat to the inner workings of her creative process as she concepts and prepares her biggest show to date. Assembly Required: Teyana Taylor’s […]
Just days after becoming one of the Hip-Hop icons to cross the half-century mark, Raekwon drops The Appetition, a new EP that he created in partnership with Red Bull Songs. The effort is the first release from the legendary emcee since 2017. A concise and potent three-track effort, Raekwon partnered with the rising talent to […]
Continuing Red Bull Music Festival Chicago, a special two-part live musical performance, titled Black Monastic, curated by Theaster Gates’ Rebuild Foundation and held at the stunning Garfield Park Conservatory to a sold-out crowd. The mission of the rebuild Foundation is to preserve black art, music, culture and physical spaces, bringing a moving and inspiring performance. The show […]
When considering the art of breakdancing, it’s easy to envision a talented Hip-Hop dancer — “b-boy” or “b-girl” is the proper aka — somewhere wearing a Kangol hat and adidas tracksuit, hitting crazy handstands on top of a cardboard box on a South Bronx corner. However, long gone are the days where breaking was one of the […]
You’d be surprised to know how much rap and wrestling have in common. Every round in a freestyle battle can feel like a pay-per-view matchup for the heavyweight title, not to mention the braggadocio amongst top MCs in the game is comparable to the boastfulness of WWE superstars past and present, whether it be The […]
Red Bull 3Style, the largest global DJ competition in the world has announced the details for the USA national Finals, which will take over San Francisco on December 8, 2019. The event will bring six of the best DJs in the country for a battle on the turntables and will go on to represent the […]
You may have already seen on our site who won the 2018 Red Bull Culture Clash in Atlanta this past weekend — shoutout to Kranium again by the way — but let us take you inside the competition from the perspective of the power players in the show. The folks over at RB had the […]
With reality show regular DJ Self and web series star/comedian Majah Hype on your team, is losing even an option? Red Bull reggae sensation Kranium thinks not. As a matter of fact, the Frequent Flyers crew pulled off an upsetting victory against hometown favorite Zaytoven and his Zaytown Global crew in the Red Bull’s 2018 […]
Red Bull Radio has become a sort of go-to creative hub for all things music and the creatives surrounding it. Always known for delivering in-depth interviews with the most innovative players in the game, the lifestyle brand’s Fireside Chat series is continuing the master flow of content with its latest subject: eclectic MC and 1/2 of the legendary rap […]
Millennial dancehall artist Kranium says what everyone else is afraid to say. In his prep for Red Bull’s Annual Culture Clash in Atlanta this upcoming weekend, the soft-spoken twenty-something sat down with The Mind Squad before the anticipated event dubbed as “4 sets, 4 stages and one winner.” The competition sets will feature crews led […]
The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) announced today that Hip Hop Legend Richard “Crazy Legs” Colón will receive the Hispanic Heritage Award for Culture during the 31st Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2018. The Awards will be broadcast nationally on PBS […]
Red Bull Music is bringing back its jam-packed, basement bashment-inspired Culture Clash experience, and they chose good ol’ Atlanta, GA as the perfect location. Red Bull Culture Clash always drew from the irie vibes of music, adopting the same style of Jamaican music battles that went down in the 1950s. These “sound clashes” […]
Over the weekend, during Red Bull‘s BC One Camp Houston, an breaking battle of epic proportions went down, with over a dozen of the illest b-boys and b-girls from the Southeast and East Coast participating in competition in which the winners will find themselves at the Red Bull World Finals in Zurich, Switzerland later this […]
DJ Ease of Las Vegas was recently crowned the International Turntablist Of The Year for 2018 by Global Spin Awards earlier this week in LA, as premiered on REVOLT TV and hosted by Snoop Dogg at the lavish award ceremony. DJ Ease has been perfecting his craft for many years as both a DJ and […]
The Red Bull Culture Clash is, quite possibly, one of the greatest things to happen to music. This time last year, the stage was set in London’s O2 Arena as 4 crews reperesenting Hip-Hop, UK Garage & Grime, and Dancehall, respectively, battled it out in a show of epic proportions. For those unfamiliar with the […]
Kicking off the summer on Wednesday, June 21st at Knitting Factory Brooklyn – Red Bull Sound Select is a global artist development program that works with the best curators in local music scenes to bring fans unique shows in cities worldwide. Two of New York’s rising stars, Wiki and Your Old Droog, are set to […]
Weeks before the release of legendary rapper Tupac Biopic film, CEO of MBIND LLC Maxwell Benson has launched new animation series ” 8 Million Stories.” Narrated by Money B, the first episode tells about Tupac touring with Digital Underground and the early days before being an artist when he was a background dancer. With the […]
Last month marked the launch of one of Red Bull’s latest offerings, a three-part web series surrounding the inspiring narratives of three powerful women making significant marks in the realms of entertainment and the arts. Following music industry pioneer and AFROPUNK partner Jocelyn Cooper, Tom Tom Magazine founder Mindy Abovitz, and global street artist Magda […]
Wildly influential, current titans of the music production game Metro Boomin, Sonny Digital and Zaytoven showed New York this past weekend how the South is running at a veritable position in the music industry on a global scale during a round table hosted by Red Bull Music Academy. Each developing a signature aesthetic and designating their […]