SF Weekly

“All The Music Down Here is Hyphy:” An Interview with Richmond Producer YP On The Beat

For the last few years, 26-year-old bedroom producer, YP on The Beat, has been working on a new Yay Area sound, one that combines the booming, gloopy sound of hyphy, with the regimented high hat and ...
KQED

‘It’s Pure Energy’: How Hyphy Came to Define Bay Area Hip-Hop

When it comes to cultural exports of the Bay Area, hyphy is in a league of its own. The subgenre of hip-hop has an up-tempo, hyperactive beat that makes you want to dance. In the early 2000s, artists ...
SFGate

Due respect / Hyphy's hot, and the Federation wants to make it plain: The music wouldn't be what it is without the Yay Area

Ever since the mid-'80s glory days of Hammer, Too $hort and Digital Underground, Oakland has been considered ground zero for the Bay Area's hip-hop scene. Although it ...
SFGate

Honoring Traxamillion, The San Jose-Raised Producer Of The Hyphy Hip-Hop Generation

I can't remember the first time I heard a Traxamillion song, but I always knew when it was his. My fellow Bay Area natives agree; for homegrown '90s babies, it seems like he was always there, pumping ...