Self-described king of slang E-40 didn't invent the word "hyphy," an adjective used to describe the wild antics associated with participants in and onlookers at spontaneous, usually illegal car ...

Hyphy was touted as the Next Big Thing. Then the movement's momentum appeared to have stalled, at least in music industry circles. Critics had their reasons, everything from the lack of a big hit ...

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The music documentary captures the hugely kinetic Hyphy movement and brings the sights and sounds of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most influential musical movement of the past 30 years to life on the ...

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Running a restaurant isn't easy, but a local food influencer is taking on the challenge. He's opened up a bold new burger joint in West Oakland, paying tribute to Bay Area hip-hop culture. Darion ...

GOING INTO THE HP Pavilion in San Jose on Monday night, it looked as if radio station Wild 94.9’s Boo Bomb concert might serve as the funeral march for hyphy. The hip-hop subgenre, which got its start ...

It's easy to identify hyphy music, but it's not so easy to chart its origins and evolution. In an attempt to compile the genre's “oral history,” Complex gathered ...

The genre suffered the steepest sales plunge of any popular musical form in the last year, losing 20.7% of its tally from ’05 to ’06, according to SoundScan. Similarly, not a single hip-hop artist ...