By Robin Finley. Photography by Carlos Andres “radheyo” It’s official: urban dance has made a permanent move from the local streets and into the hearts of people around the world. suggest
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Crew Peligrosos Keeps It Real
By Pamela Ospina. Photography: Picinic Fotografia Crew Peligrosos take the stage as light and color fill the room. Heads bob to the beat and words roll off the tongue; the kids in the barrio watch every move and see what they long to become. Hip hop is comprised of 4 basic elements: MCs (Rappers), Deejays, B-Boys/B-Girls, and Graffiti artists. These [...]
B-Boy Sunday At Konker Jam 3
Medellin, Colombia stays fresh with Hip Hop where local breakdancing crews dedicate a Sunday afternoon to a B-boy competition in Barrio Milagrosa.
The Female Epidemic
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.” – Katherine Madrid Epidemia [...]
Urban Flow – Hip Hop Dance In Medellin
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 on street corners in her [...]
Laberinto’s New Video – Lola
Medellin’s Laberinto, one of the city’s longest standing and most prolific hip hop groups just released their new video for the song “Lola.” The song about meeting mamacitas shows how the group’s sound is maturing in a more playful way, away from the heavy barrio sound saturated with the strife of the city. feed
L-Mental’s New Album – Espejos
Medellin based L-Mental just dropped their newest album, “Espejos” and it is available in an impressive fold-out three-CD anthology/mini-box set which includes their first two albums as well as their lastest. advertise
New music filled with love from C15
Booming out of Medellin’s Comuna 13 is a fresh, summery new track from C15 entitled “Musica + Amor = Libertad.” Frontman Jeihhco Castaño, who is also the director of Elite Hip Hop, dropped this track last week with a very special message attached. Tired of the negative stereotypes surround the comuna, C15 stresses that the barrio has a positive side [...]
Laberinto – The barrio’s best
In Colombia, especially in Medellin, hip-hop is a big deal. The multi-generational local scene has a massive following of dedicated rappers and producers, as well as a number of hip-hop schools teaching music and dance as an alternative to violence. Bohemio – laberinto ELC For the past 10 years, Laberinto has been instrumental in both defining the sound of Medellin [...]
An Underground Movement Whose Time Has Come
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).
