This past Tuesday, as President Obama notoriously took the hand of Raul Castro at a memorial to Nelson Mandela, the Cuban government simultaneously cracked down on political dissidents on the island.

HAVANA (AP) — For more than two years, a U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba’s underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government, according ...

Last semester, three girls journeyed to Havana obsessed with culture and came back to the states with the culture-centric Cuban hip-hop group Obsesion. Obsesion, fronted by Magia López and Alexey ...

The song Patria y Vida, or homeland and life, is a spin on the communist regime's decades-old slogan in Cuba of "patria o muerte" — homeland or... The Hip-Hop Song That's Driving Cuba's Unprecedented ...

A report suggests that USAID infiltrated Cuba's nascent hip-hop scene several years ago. Now that Cuba-U.S. relations have officially begun to... What A Failed Hip-Hop Experiment Can Teach Us About ...

The RZA and Raekwon will unite to perform the iconic Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… album with a live orchestra next week. Fans of the Wu-Tang Clan and Raekwon will get to hear his iconic Only Built 4 Cuban ...

On June 27, as Nelson Mandela was reported to be lying in hospital on life support, London-based activist and hip-hop producer Carlos Martinez released the track "Madiba’s Message". The instrumental, ...

A recent piece in the New York Times Sunday Review was about hip hop in Havana. It was called “Straight Outta Havana”, taking the name cue from NWA’s notorious classic cd Straight Outta Compton. Cuban ...

Cuba is suffering through a summer of dire shortages, from food and electricity to medicine. Fed-up Cubans are taking to the streets in unprecedented protests — and they're voicing their outrage ...

Cuba is suffering through a summer of dire shortages, from food and electricity to medicine. Fed-up Cubans are taking to the streets in unprecedented protests — and they're voicing their outrage ...