At times on Saturday, the Mall of America bumped with Hmong rap songs. During others, it rang with the jangle of hlab nyiaj, the traditional sash adorned with silver coins. For more than four hours, ...
An online competition is drawing fans to the small but growing Hmong hip-hop community. St. Paul rapper Justin Thao, who goes by J Fly, posted his song “Levitate.” He sees the contest as a way to ...
Growing up in a remote mountain village without electricity, NT One spent more than a decade pursuing one ambition: bringing Vietnamese Hmong music into the global contemporary music scene. For more ...