Akwid, known for pioneering the banda-infused hip-hop movement, teams up with Uruguayan MC Santi Mostaffa for hard-hitting track "Whoa!" By Griselda Flores Senior Editor, Latin Mexican hip-hop duo ...

Two years ago, the Los Angeles-based urban rap duo Akwid became the first group to break big with a mixture of Mexican-flavored hip-hop in Spanish that was tagged urban regional. The group sold ...

When Sergio and Francisco Gómez were teenagers in South Los Angeles in the early 1990s, they lived across the street from a drug house. Watching the dealers from the windows of the small apartment ...

At first, Sergio and Francisco Gomez don’t object to the idea of posing for photos on the streets of their old neighborhood, in the mixed black and Latino area near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Like many Mexicans who are thriving against the odds in the United States, Francisco Gomez cannot believe his good luck. Akwid, the rap duo featuring him and his older brother Sergio, has been in the ...

Indie publisher Hip Latin Music has signed a deal to administer two high profile catalogs in Mexico. One is the urban/regional Mexican duo Akwid, made up of brothers Sergio and Francisco Gomez and t… ...