About Straight Bars
Hip-hop news, performances and guides.
Straight Bars covers rap, emerging artists, music news and culture. Our Instagram is where the conversation started; this website brings the performances and articles together.
Watch original sessions, follow new releases or explore the details of a verse in our Rap Guides.
Coverage links to its sources. Older selections retain their original source dates, and guides are separate from reporting.
How we cover stories
We link reporting and original performances, preserve source dates, and distinguish news, guides and paid placements.
Drafting and editing may use AI assistance. We check claims against linked sources and do not claim interviews we did not conduct.
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