For a brief period of time last month, YouTube caused everyone to experience the decidedly un-chill worry that the foundational “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” was going to disappear.

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.

Lo-fi stands for low fidelity. Music that's considered lo-fi falls somewhere along the definition of distorted beats and technical flaws being looped that create a pretty cool unique sound people can ...

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 ...

ChilledCow is the YouTube creator responsible for the incredibly popular, possibly paradigm-shifting YouTube stream "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to." Over the weekend, their entire ...

J Dilla's legacy as a hip-hop producer and artist continues to be examined. The contributions he made to artists and groups like A Tribe Called Quest, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, and The Roots, as well as ...

YouTube’s lo-fi hip-hop community has for years offered a place to virtually gather, do homework, and find comfort in the random messages of strangers that populate in live chats. Now, as we’re all ...