Here are five on-the-rise acts in rap that you should definitely see at SXSW this year.

With his new album Goblin, the Odd Future frontman managed to do what few had done before: strike legitimate fear into people.

The hip-hop duo's intriguing artistic style ensures that the two will go far.

While the sneaker industry has been historically linked to urban sub-culture, few have been as direct as Adidas.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.'s dual capitalist sentiment reflects dual musical style.

Under The Mistletoe spans across genres, though not in a cohesive manner.

His wide musical influences range from Neil Young and Mojave 3 all the way to J Dilla and Baths.

Andy Bothwell, aka Astronautalis, has a freestyle flow that is perhaps one of the best in contemporary hip-hop.

After three years, Houston grime-punk rapper, B L A C K I E All Caps, With Spaces is back sporting a fresh hair cut and a fresh album.

Despite its surface-level flaws, the album has a fair amount of merits all its own.

The features features more than 200 of Dali’s works, including  the largest collection of his copper etchings.

Inflammatory to an extreme, in a clever way, Das Racist doesn’t care because they know they’re smarter ­— or at least they think they are.

Thousands of music fans from across the country and around the world descended on the park for three days of grand performances at this years Austin City Limits.

Drew’s affinity for forgiveness is fitting, given the title of Broken Social Scene’s last record, Forgiveness Rock Record.

The ideological similarities between hip-hop and punk may manifest in a form that spans across the entire genre.

“Prep fashion” has started to permeate into sartorial spheres outside of the yacht club.

This Thursday, Austin’s Gallery Black Lagoon plays host to the Poster Cabaret Bicycle Print Show. The print show appropriately comes at the beginning of National Bike Month.

Ogden Payne, a 19-year-old hip-hop artist in Austin, is largely inspired by Kanye West. Payne’s upcoming mixtape, Late Night Thoughts, focuses on the struggle advancing in the music industry and attracting an audience.

A-Trak has risen to prominence as one of the world’s premier turntable DJs since he won the DMC World DJ Championship at the age of 15. As the first DJ to win all three major DJ titles, he eventually branched out beyond hip-hop to different genres, morphing into a multifaceted artist incorporating elements of electro, house, disco and a variety of others.

Complex magazine reported yesterday morning the alleged location of Earl Sweatshirt, the 17-year-old rapper of the phenom hip-hop group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. Sweatshirt, legally known as Thebe Kgositsile, is purportedly in a boarding school in Samoa called the Coral Reef Academy.

Turntablism, the manipulation of sounds through turntables and a DJ mixer, has never been a glorified role within the rap scene. DJs are often required to put in a tremendous amount of work centered around the goals of the artist for whom they spin. Even if given ample room for creativity, it’s rarer for DJs to suggest verses to rappers than for rappers to make suggestions to DJs.

Four years after the release of the critically acclaimed In Rainbows, Radiohead abruptly released The King of Limbs on Friday after announcing the album’s release only days before.

From even before its release, rapper Jay-Z made it apparent that his new memoir, “Decoded” was going to be an ambitious piece of work through its extremely unique marketing campaign. HiphopDX, reported that in efforts to create buzz about the book, excerpts were to be featured in random places ranging from the bottom of hotel pools, to the sides of buildings, to subways, to pool tables. In typical Jay-Z fashion, the product ends up living up to the hype.

Doomtree alone is a perplexing word. It creates an image of some sort of ominous plant exuding an aura of foreboding darkness.

Zeale’s third mixtape, Disasterkrft, is littered with an assortment of songs that run the gamut of what occurs within the hip-hop world. This time around, he has tightened things and set the bar even higher than in his previous installment, Haterz and Robotz.