Despite Erykah Badu’s headlining slot being cut short, Smokin Grooves 2022 was a great time featuring a mix of classic cuts and new music exclusives. The air was thick with anticipation as artists and ...

Some of the biggest names in hip hop gathered at the Marcus Ampitheatre Friday night as part of the Smokin' Grooves tour, a great show full of surprises. Some of the biggest names in hip hop gathered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smokin Grooves took over Downtown Los Angeles this past Saturday (March 19). Fans jammed in awe of featured headliners like Nas, ...

Smokin’ Grooves was a revolutionary festival launched in the 1990s and is credited with being the first large-scale festival to bring hip-hop to masses. And this weekend the revived festival returned ...

In the 1990s, when alternative and rock-heavy festivals like Lollapalooza and H.O.R.D.E. ruled the large-scale concert landscape and hip-hop tours were underrepresented, a new kind of festival emerged ...

This year's edition of the Smokin' Grooves Tour (the first since 1998) makes clear that the more entrepreneurial of hip-hop musicians have taken the relationship further, organizing their acts along ...

With artists such as Erykah Badu, San Pedro native Miguel, The Roots, Busta Rhymes and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival veteran Thundercat among the more than 30 acts on the bill, it’s not a ...