By Robin Finley    Photos by Daniel Gomez

“Hip hop is a catharsis of all of my thoughts and emotions. I don’t do it to be a part of any scene or to get a boyfriend. I’ve been writing and rapping since I was 10 years old.  I do it because it is who I am.”
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Popping and locking their way to the forefront of Medellin’s dance scene, Urban Flow in Poblado aims to teach contemporary dance steps while embracing the hip hop culture behind them. With internationally trained instructors, the street-style academy considers itself “the authentic representatives of hip hop” in the Paisa capital. Flow B-girl Alexa Gall, who learned her craft [...]

By Gregory Theintz

Unlike Cali, Medellin does not define itself as a salsa capital. Hitting the town for a night out, you’re just as likely to hear merengue, reggaeton or vallenato as you are to find the sultry strains of salsa. It’s a curious fact indeed, especially considering Medellin is home to Latina Stereo, one of [...]

With Geko Jones brewing up a hot set of Latin beats mixed with a touch of electronica things started to get a little sweaty after midnight Saturday, dare we say a little dirty. Visiting from New York, Geko Jones is one of the leading cats in the Tropical Bass movement and he brought out the salsa, bullerenge, [...]

By Jeff Guerra. This article first appeared in issue 11 of The Arepa (here)
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By Jeff Guerra. Photography: Tomas Uribe

The vocalists are its stars, predominantly male; they sing, they rap, they are the new Latin players. But it’s the beat that makes it go, a dirty growling deep bass bump that creeps along at a sordid pace and sets up shop somewhere down in your lower hips and thighs. [...]

Photos and text by Robin Finley

Over the past year Colombia’s underground hip hop/breakdacing movement has really matured  and nowhere can this be better seen than in the barrios of Medellin’s comuna 4 (Moravia, Aranjuez, Manrique).
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Story: Sally Jordan. Photos: Martha Castillo

Shock is one of Colombia’s premiere music magazines and last week they put on their major annual award show in the massive Coliseo El Salitre in Bogota. With 26 different categories and over 100 nominated Colombian artists, this year the Shock Awards were an impressive parade of Colombia’s most popular musicians and of [...]

After the annual Hip 4 concert in Moravia, and the 6th annual Revolucion Sin Muertos show in Comuna 13, it was time for the 3rd annual Hip 6 concert in Doce de Octubre, Medellin. The show brought in so many people that outside of the small area for journalists and the logistics crew, there was not [...]

This weekend there was a peaceful, non-violent, revolution of art and hip hop up in Medellin’s west side Comuna 13. The event, “Revolucion sin muertos” or, revolution without death, took place on the anniversary of Operation Orion, October 16th. The event is to honor those who died in the military operation which took the lives [...]