For a brief period of time last month, YouTube caused everyone to experience the decidedly un-chill worry that the foundational “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” was going to disappear.

Dion Lewis was trying to make the best out of a difficult situation. Last August, when a storm left his Chicago neighborhood without electricity for a week, he improvised. Lewis had recently created a ...

A lot of jazz lovers cringe when they hear hip-hop, which is too bad, since the two genres share so much rhythmically and thematically. When it comes to sophisticated syncopation and surprise, the pop ...

Lofi hip-hop is here to stay. The instrumental blend of traditional hip-hop and jazz has notably made its mark on Spotify, where the “Lofi Fruits” playlist by indie record label Strange Fruits Music ...

Making the perfect work/study/chill playlist is the finest of arts, which is why, TBH, I've largely stopped trying. Don't get me wrong — I still have a "what I'm listening to now" playlist, a generic ...

When Kendall musician Joshua Hicks – better known as Ashiyushi – started planning a new hip-hop night at Las Rosas, he knew exactly where to turn for a theme: “Lo-fi hip-hop radio beats to relax/study ...

Are you really a student if you’ve not done a late night study session soundtracked to an unending lo-fi beats playlist on YouTube? According to Google Trends, searches for the term “lo-fi” on YouTube ...