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 ...

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 ...

Painted a light mustard color with images of flowers, eyes, musical notes, pretty clouds and the sun emblazoned on its walls, the tunnel that connected the stages of the Smokin’ Grooves festival at ...

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 ...

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 ...