It’s highlights week here at This Is Nashville, and today, we’re showcasing some of the musical performances and personalities we’ve featured this year.
Elements of hip-hop culture: beats & rhymes
Today, we explore two of the elements of hip-hop culture: beats (producing) and rhymes (emceeing).
Hip-hop artist Brian Brown has his own way of repping Nashville
It’s tradition for hip-hop artists to rep the places, people and scenes they come from with fierce displays of pride. But in Brown’s music, including his new album, “BBGonProfit,” released in December, he makes a subtler art of speaking to and for his city, watchful and witty from where he stands on the fringes of Nashville’s powerful music industry and booming economic growth.