Vermont Hip Hop News

09/05/2024

A wealth of hip hop knowledge on tap tonight. Tune in.

Melo Grant—DJ, host of “The Cultural Bunker,” and Burlington City Councilor—leads a musical journey through the evolution of Hip Hop, with side steps to other genres. She explains how sampling—the practice of using existing recorded music to create new sounds—influenced Hip Hop and vice ...

08/10/2024

Biggest day of the year is coming back around again....

08/02/2024

From the Symptoms Collective to Golden Hour, Travis has been putting in work to make the 802 great for longer than some of you have been breathing. Another great night at The Cellar incoming...

07/29/2024

This new self-titled project from Rivan is one of the best albums out of the 802 so far this year. Impeccable goods.

Listen to rivan

07/25/2024

Props to Mavstar getting some well-deserved shine this week in Seven Days ... if you haven't heard Verona yet? Fix that today.

(Self-released, CD, digital) Armed with confidence and conviction on his fourth studio album, a leading local rapper asserts his grit and proclaims a commitment to...

07/12/2024

Have you heard this yet? Powerful set. Whatever Devon Dutchmaster is cooking up next, it's going to be greatness. One of the strongest new voices on the scene in 2024.

Produced, mixed by Ratlord

07/11/2024

Anyone looking to step their game up needs to be here. This is going to be a wealth of knowledge on tap and all you have to do is show up. Big props to Nastee, Mr. Dankwa and Es-K for sharing the goods.

07/10/2024

Street Religion's legendary Floor General is going to be holding court at Rap Night Burlington this Friday...

07/08/2024

What's your favorite 802 hip hop album so far this year?

07/07/2024

Great to see ArtsRiot getting back to live music -- even better to see they're still committed to creating space for the community. 3rd Thursdays is an 802 institution and the 18th promises to be a bonkers show.

07/02/2024

A heavy lineup & an unexpected gem. This is a cool cross-section of muiltiple waves, coming together.

Prod. Flywlkr

07/01/2024

Fresh new music video from Nahte Renmus - crisp, creative, and dope.

FULL ALBUM HERE: https://too.fm/pbdxqm9BUY A RECORD, TAPE, OR CD:https://nahterenmus.bandcamp.com/merchTrack 8 off the album 'Funk.95', featuring Jarv (...

06/29/2024

Miraculously, Chicago spitter Valee will be coming through to ArtsRiot next month, along with a lineup of choice local talent.

SkippaBlackBart and 3&P Entertainment present There Goes The Neighborhood. Performances by Valee, SkippaBlackBart, Young Brazii, Real Ricky, Yvng OHMZ, Young Topia, and DJ Kanga

05/09/2024

This Saturday don't miss Homeboy Sandman & E-Turn on their Rich Tour live at Valley Meade Farm & Dispensary in Waitsfield, VT with local support from Mister Burns, Sed One and I-Rhymes.

$10 / BYOB

02/01/2024

Taking a look at some outstanding music videos & giving props to the talent behind the lens that makes all this art possible. It's a great time for 802 hip hop.

Music videos used to be rare around here. Especially good ones. Since the dot com launched in 2018 , top quality music videos for 802 hip hop songs have become almost routine. This cultural transformation has been driven by remarkably few people. We're only talking about a dozen or two operators m

01/31/2024

Got to spotlight an outstanding 2023 album in Seven Days this week. If you've been sleeping: stop.

(Self-released, digital) Obi the Voicegod might read like an awkward name in print. But the second you hear him on the microphone, it makes perfect...

01/27/2024

Capping off an absolutely insane week for local shows, the Hella Fader crew is hosting a celebration tonight at Orlando's with a guaranteed hot shot of a lineup. 802 hip hop has seldom been as popping as it is right now. Big ups to everyone making it happen.

01/26/2024

Rap Night Burlington going absolutely ham this evening with some of the biggest acts in the state coming through to regulate. Definitely the place to be on a Friday night.

01/25/2024

Top shelf talent on deck at The Reks in Warren tonight - and the show is free. Worth the drive, bud.

01/24/2024

VTHH Awards got a shout in Seven Days this week, as did Fattie B.

The first new singles of the year from Vermont artists have started to drop, and some great tunes are coming down the pike. First up...

01/21/2024

Happy Sunday. Worth revisiting a piece from last year that is twice as true in '24

Vermont Hip Hop, as a community, as a superorganism, is about to undergo some of the most incredible changes it has ever seen. A lot of that is because the same is true for the entire Vermont music scene and, indeed, the whole damn music industry. Yet it's also thanks to the talent & hard w

01/15/2024

Back with more 802 bangers; gonna be a busy week on the dot com.

In yesterday’s ROUNDUP jonker , we went through a year’s worth of Bandcamp highlights. Today, it’s just wall to wall bangers. Almost all of these songs got multiple nominations in this year’s Vermont Hip Hop Awards . It was awesome to see how many of you make it a point to really check other...

01/14/2024

Back on the ROUNDUP beat all this week because there is a ton of great music to catch up on. We'll be back tomorrow with more.

After a long hiatus in 2023, there is a ton of music to catch up on, so we’ll be doing ROUNDUP drops all week. First, though, let’s cruise through some gems available on Bandcamp, one of the best tools independent musicians have in our modern s**tshow. Some of these are brand new; some of these ...

01/13/2024

Dope to see the return of a crucial BTV tradition: 3rd Thursdays is officially back at Green Door Studio next week. As ever, they'll be connecting artists and helping to build the networks that make a music scene possible. Huge thanks to Anthill Collective, DJ Kanga and host Mavstar.

01/11/2024

TONIGHT: Crazy lineup going down in Warren. Remember, Mister Burns is putting this on at the Reks every Thursday, and it's always free. Some crazy acts will be coming through this winter, too.

01/10/2024

Big Facts: "No one in Vermont, in any genre, is making the kind of music Losambe turns out."

(Equal Eyes Records, digital) The Vermont hip-hop scene is a strange construct: a collection of stylistically diverse micro scenes, united by the sheer fact of...

08/02/2023

Love, Kelly swinging for the fences yet again ... Thursday, August 17th is set to be a legendary night. Tickets on sale now at his website.

06/17/2023

Ain’t but one choice today. https://www.vermonthiphop.com/news/2023/6/16/a-juneteenth-celebration-to-remember

This is late, lazy and incomplete but I can’t let this one pass by without noting, for the historical record: holy s**t . This Saturday in downtown Burlington, there will be amazing entertainment everywhere you turn, more or less all day long. That is thanks to Burlington’s REIB Committee — th...

06/15/2023

Huge news on the Juneteenth celebration this Saturday in Burlington: Slick Rick himself will be headlining after Arrested Development was forced to cancel. Prayers up for Speech, that man is an American treasure.