Dion Lewis was trying to make the best out of a difficult situation. Last August, when a storm left his Chicago neighborhood without electricity for a week, he improvised. Lewis had recently created a ...

Depending on whom you ask, lo-fi hip-hop is a creative feat of the internet age, a punchline, or a meaningless label tacked on to souped-up elevator music. The genre started roughly a decade ago among ...

Streams of chill, endless hip-hop beats set to visuals of animated characters have taken over YouTube, beloved by millions of users who listen to these videos while working or trying to fall asleep.