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.

There’s always been an undeniable bond between hip-hop and anime built through shared themes, emotions and ambition. Here’s a look at how the two have always moved in tune.

Volksgeist. Nujabes and the Birth of Lo-Fi Hip Hop. Posted: April 11, 2025 | Last updated: April 11, 2025. Jun Seba (Japanese: 瀬葉 淳, Hepburn: Seba Jun, February 7, 1974 – February 26, 2010 ...

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 ...

The connection between hip-hop and anime was hard to explain back then, but it didn’t really have to be. It was instinctual, and it quickly became a fixture of the culture. Open the Youtube video ...