EPISODES
Nora Holt: The Lives and Loves of Harlem’s Legendary Blonde Bombshell
A musical prodigy from Kansas becomes a renowned race woman in Chicago, a tabloid sensation in Harlem, and a musical force the world over. These are the many lives and ...
Mic Check: The Queen of Rap
It’s the dawn of hip-hop and 15-year-old Roxanne Shanté is the best battle rapper in Queensbridge NYC. She spits out a hit record in the time it takes for her ...
The Muse – Snap Classic
When a young man is told he is going deaf, he sets out on a challenge to memorize the songs that defined his life. He had no idea that those ...
The Hired G.U.N.
Sir Dyno is the Chicano Eazy-E, the king of lowrider car shows, an up-and-coming gangsta rapper straight outta Northern California. But when he gets the money to finance his next ...
The Shot
A young filmmaker documents a political showdown between an authoritarian president and a brave Ugandan pop singer. When he aims his lens, he has no idea the shot he’s about ...
The Line – Snap Classic
It’s 1972 and Singer Nobuko “JoAnne” Miyamoto and her partner Chris Ijima get “the call.” It’s Yoko Ono and John Lennon inviting them to sing on national TV. What happens ...
Feelabeelia: One-Hit Wonder?
Hold onto your mullets! British drummer Nick Murphy and his band are overjoyed after signing a record deal with THE Quincy Jones in 1984. That is, until a chance encounter ...
Hyphy Kids Got Trauma
Hyphy, the legendary youth culture movement from the Bay. Uptempo music, oversized airbrushed T-shirts, stunna shades and candy painted cars doing donuts in intersections. It was an unbridled, livewire, communal ...
Shake, Rattle, and Roll – Snap Classic
A rock band from Zimbabwe becomes the voice of a revolution. And a New York Rabbi has his faith tested when he takes a job helping a member of the ...
Movement
This week on Snap, the story of a self proclaimed “drunk drag queen,” and the music that saved them. Plus, we go on an adventure underwater to visit a secret kingdom ...
The Real Fleetwood Mac
Elmer Gantry gets an offer to join a notoriously unstable rock n’ roll band on a tour of the US. What could possibly go wrong?
The Repertoire
“I kept seeing pieces with this name at the top… I wasn’t looking for him, he was almost looking for me.” This week on Snap, Nicholas McCarthy immerses himself in ...
The Hired G.U.N. – Snap Classic
Sir Dyno is the Chicano Eazy-E, the king of lowrider car shows, an up-and-coming gangsta rapper straight outta Northern California. But when he gets the money to finance his next ...
Ping
A young woman wakes up in her Beijing dorm room to a call. A strange voice, a man she barely remembers, is asking her a question that will change her ...
Death Note from Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez
A Mexican superstar, known as “King of Corridos,” is handed a note as he walks on stage to sing to a sold-out show. What happens next is a mystery for ...
J Dilla’s Lost Scrolls – Snap Classic
When Jeff Bubeck buys an old record collection, he has no idea it once belonged to J Dilla, one of the greatest hip-hop producers of all time. But something else ...
Kismet – Snap Classic
Two women set sail on a tiny boat, embarking on a journey to freedom that takes them across the globe. And a Hungarian composer dreams of changing the world… he ...
Hey DJ! – Snap Classic
A tiny, pirate radio station broadcasts to the thousands of families trapped in ISIS-controlled Mosul. A man’s fingers fly across the keys with ease when he sits down at a ...
Soundtrack of Silence – Snap Classic
When a young man is told is he going deaf, he sets out on a challenge to memorize the songs that defined his life. He had no idea that those ...
Easy Street – Snap Classic
"Easy Street" is the irresistible ear-worm that went from a harmless little song to a hellish theme, to a war cry on the streets of Portland.