(KRON) — Bay Area rapper Ruby Ibarra has been crowned the winner of this year’s NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Ibarra, a Filipino rapper who grew up in San Lorenzo, rose to the top of nearly 7,500 entrants ...

If the scent of lumpia and the thump of bass-heavy rap tracks about Filipino culture caught your attention while driving along the 805 or 54 freeways recently, you were within earshot of the "Party ...

Ruby Ibarra, a Filipina American rapper and spoken word artist from the Bay Area, has won NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest with her trilingual performance of “Bakunawa.” Why it matters: The win brings ...

The first thing Murrawarri Filipino rapper DOBBY does when he arrives on his Country is greet the river. For DOBBY, Wahwangu (the Barwon River) is an ancestor and taking time for this greeting does ...

Filipino hip-hop has been rising fast in recent years, but who’s truly winning the race? Learn interesting details about the artists who top the charts Hip-hop has become a leading music genre in the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Filipino rapper Ruby Ibarra excited a crowd of hundreds at Capitol Modern Saturday night with the Bakunawan Collective. She and the band gained widespread popularity after ...

Illest Morena believes the local hip-hop scene is in a strange place with a growing population of female artists amid the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A politically charged third-round performance by Filipino rap battle emcee M-Zhayt against fellow emcee Plaridhel has gone viral online, after his bars criticizing disinformation ...

Talilo Marfil and Apo Whang-od in "Waves" video. Image courtesy of Cruz Media. Facebook might still be good for something after all. Back in 2019, Portland rapper Talilo Marfil connected with ...

Guapdad 4000 isn’t your prototypical rapper. For starters, the West Oakland artist is part of the Marvel Universe’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings soundtrack, something he’s proud about as ...