KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 Malaysia’s biggest sneaker resale community, SneakerLah is expanding its wings following a RM7.6 million investment in parent company Shake Hands Sdn.
The biggest and coolest sneaker lifestyle convention, Sneakerlah 2022, will be happening at Mid Valley Exhibition Centre on the weekend of 3-4 September 2022.
Credit: Joe Flizzow official Facebook and Press
Malaysia’s Raising The Bar Festival has added rappers Joe Flizzow, Luqman Podolski and Lil Asian Thiccie to the line-up of its virtual 2021 event.
Raising The Bar (RTB), which marks its 10th anniversary this year, announced the updated bill last week. The expanded line-up comes after the hip-hop festival was postponed from its initial date of January 30, due to the restrictions and uncertainty caused by the reintroduced movement control order in Malaysia.
The other new additions to the line-up are Tujuloca, Naufal and I-SKY, Cønfucius and Babybluebenzo. They join the first round of artists announced January 6, which includes SonaOne, MC Syze, FORCEPARKBOIS, Dato’ Maw, Hullera and more. A total of 25 artists will perform for RTB this year.
January 25, 2021
Malaysian Chinese rapper Dato’ Maw is going against the grain with a new and hyper-localised spin on hip hop that he defines as “Cina Music”.
Courtesy of Dato’ Maw
Hip-hop music has come a long way since its 1970s inception in New York in the United States.
The genre has, since it became a globalised art form, spread to Southeast Asia, including Malaysia – where it exploded in the late 1990s.
Malaysian hip hop became popular when pioneering Malay rapper duo Too Phat, who alternated lyrics in English and Malay, started airing on national radio in 1999. Their second album “Plan B”, which came out in 2001, went on to sell 4.5 million copies.