DOWNLOAD: Enter-Tribal –“Native Cypher”
Taking it back while moving it forward, this quartet of Indigenous MCs steps up and rocks a classic beat in the first of a new series they call the Native Cypher. Flexing their verbal versatility and...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: Impossible Nothing – “Buckin’”
The many sonic and aesthetic incarnations of Impossible Nothing find their latest expression in this hype new instrumental track. Darwin Frost, aka Bishop, aka X-Man, aka D’arcy aka Impossible Nothing,...
View ArticleSTREAM: Princess Nokia – “YAYA”
Rising experimental hip-hop artist Princess Nokia drops an electro-rap dedication to her Taíno roots and ancestry. Falling somewhere between the melodic song-rap of Santigold and the electronic world...
View ArticleListen to City Natives’ new album Red City
Rising east coast hip-hop crew City Natives are back with Red City, a new album of aggressive and confident hip-hop. Following the swagger and sway of their potent 2013 debut, 4 Kingz, the quartet of...
View ArticlePat Boy: Mayan Rap is Bringing the Culture Back
All over the globe, Indigenous MCs and hip-hop artists are using the furious force of rhymes to express, represent and revitalize their original languages and cultures. And Mayan MCs, like 22-year-old...
View ArticleStream Samian’s new album Enfant de la terre
Algonquin hip-hop artist Samian returns with his third album of bold, creative hip-hop, Enfant de la terre. Samian has long held it down for his people and for hip-hop music, where he uses creative...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Stream Silver Jackson’s New Album “Starry Skies Opened Eyes”
Silver Jackson’s remarkable new album, Starry Skies Opened Eyes, bursts with life and an artful spirit of experimentation. Welcome to the future-now sounds of Indigenous expansion. Silver Jackson is...
View ArticleSTREAM: Impossible Nothing’s ‘Mechadoom’
Skookum Sound System’s Impossible Nothing continues his prolific output with this maximalist rework of MF Doom classics. Impossible Nothing has a penchant for pulverizing samples into distorted...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: ‘We’re All Infected’– A Hellish Halloween Mix from D Ojibwe 1
It’s Halloween. Do it responsibly. Make sure there’s good music. You’ve got your costume picked out. You’ve got some candy to get. You’ve got a party to attend. And you’ve taken the admirable step of...
View ArticleFrank Waln: “We’re a People with a Past, Not of the Past”
Sicangu Lakota rising hip-hop artist Frank Waln talks story with Originals First about art, education, museums and contesting the “symbolic annihilation” of Indigenous People. Our friends over at ICTMN...
View ArticleMTV World’s Rebel Music Rocks ‘Native America’
MTV World’s music documentary series Rebel Music kicks off its second season with the voices of Turtle Island’s original peoples—the revolutionary sounds of “Native America”. What does it mean to be...
View ArticleDownload Boogey the Beat’s Live DJ Set for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Winnipeg-based beatsmith and producer Boogey the Beat drops a new live DJ mix dedicated to helping raise awareness about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. RPM sat down with him to talk about the...
View ArticleSTREAM: Aspects –“What You Get Now (ft. Ghostface Killah & Cody Coyote)”
This international hip-hop collab between Aspects, Ghostface Killah and Indigenous up-and-comer, Cody Coyote, brings out some head-knockin’ ice cold battle flows. Ottawa-based Indigenous hip-hop artist...
View ArticleListen to Bastille’s “Weapon” (vs. Angel Haze vs. F*U*G*Z vs. Braque)
Cherokee hip-hop artist Angel Haze spits pure fire over Bastille’s massive tune, “Weapon” (vs. F*U*G*Z vs. Braque). There is a strong roster of rapid fire, hypertalented female MCs currently vying for...
View Article‘Sovereign Trax’ Spins Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music and...
RPM is pleased to bring you the first in a new cross-hemisphere collaboration with Sovereign Trax—a new music space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, identities and resistance—based in...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: The Indigenous Futurisms Mixtape
Welcome to the sounds of the Indigenous future: a hyperpresent now, melding the worlds within and beyond what we can hear, see and imagine. In collaboration with Kimiwan Zine’s new issue, we are proud...
View ArticleWatch Sharif and Sacramento Knoxx’s “From Stolen Land to Stolen Land”
Sacramento Knoxx and Sharif join forces and bring light to the intersections of our common struggles in their new video, “From Stolen Land to Stolen Land”. Resistance is everywhere. From Ferguson to...
View Article‘From a Fallen Kingdom Built on Stolen Land': Listen to the December Mix from...
After debuting their November playlist with us last month, Sovereign Trax are back with their latest mix of Indigenous and Aboriginal hip-hop and cross-over cuts coming out of occupied “Australia”. For...
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RPM’s Best Indigenous Music of 2014
The Indigenous Music Renaissance is here to stay and Native artists are leading the way. Here are our picks for the best Indigenous music of 2014. In another incredible year for Indigenous art and...
View ArticleSTREAM: Mob Bounce, ‘Welcome to the Struggle’
You hear the flames of resistance? Mob Bounce is back. “Welcome to the Struggle”, the lead single from their much-anticipated new album, Mob Medicine, announces their righteous return. It starts...
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