Rap

Wolfson to host a conference on the language, history and sociology of hip-hop

I got 99 problems but my PhD ain’t one

Tinie Tempah to headline Varsity Trip 2015

Tinie Tempah released as Varsity 2015 headliner

The Tab Meets: George The Poet

BETH SWORDS talks to George The Poet about the duty to educate, Batman and Kate Middleton.

In Defence of Dumb Rap

It’s not all about lyrics and llamas, GIL KAZIMIROV argues – modern rap is as much about the language of the soul.

The Tab Meets: Niyi

Singer, music producer and Cantab Niyi discusses Russian audiences, fashion and the Cambridge music scene with CLAUDIA LEONG.

Quartet

NANCY NAPPER CANTER reckons the older generation would be better off watching Amour.

Wretch 32

SAM MELLOR is left surprised by an artist who oozes swagger.

Goodbye Gil Scott-Heron

OSCAR WILLIAMS-GRUT pays tribute to softly-spoken creative genius Gil Scott-Heron in the wake of his death last week, and laments the departure of a man who dissociated himself from the lazy, apolitical rap genre, and leaves it in much the same state today.

Dead Poets

AMI JONES takes her own miniature Odyssey to the ADC; but these strange islanders could do with some better lotos-plants. Also, you should read The Odyssey.

Tab Tries: Take Me Out

We take part in Take Me Out for charity

Cambridge Graffiti

CATHERINE MOUSDALE AND MAX FAYERS took to Cambridge’s streets and toilet cubicles – not in a weird way – in order to find some of the town’s most creative and bewildering graffiti.