Today, lo-fi music is best known as a subgenre of downtempo electronic music containing hip-hop beats with a relaxed aesthetic that has exploded in popularity as a genre to work or study to.

Lo-fi hip-hop videos garnered more views in 2020 than in any previous year, according to YouTube Music. But even with more than 1 billion combined views, those numbers don’t tell the full story.

Lo-fi chill beats became a thing back in the summer of 2018, with channels blowing up on YouTube that featured relaxing remixes of hip-hop and other music that was perfect background noise for ...

In things that surprisingly work rather well together, a Waymo employee has set a time lapse of an autonomous vehicle operating in San Francisco to lo-fi hip-hop. Instead of a “studious animé ...

After years of studying the lo-fi hip-hop scene on YouTube, Vancouver's Powfu is the emotive rapper whose viral TikTok smasher 'death bed' is taking the unique genre into the mainstream “It’s ...

Still, it’s amusing as an anime fan to pick up an otherwise serious hip hop album and catch a reference to Majin Buu, as you do on “Pink Matter,” from Frank Ocean’s critically acclaimed ...