He decided on a path in music by way of poetry — then the beat kicked in. Now he's a rising star and just signed by Def Jam. We caught up with Toronto's Jahkoy after his set at the 2016 SXSW in Austin, Texas.

A new street art campaign in Malaysia shows the prime minister as a evil clown. It's a protest against a corruption scandal involving the prime minister and the police crackdown on dissidents in Kuala Lumpur.

Molenbeek in Brussels was the home to some of the Paris attackers. It's a largely immigrant and Muslim district and now some residents complain it's being portrayed as a den of terrorists. Reporter Adeline Sire went on a tour with a Molenbeek city councilor who wants the world to see a different face of Molenbeek.

Rebeca Lane gets inspiration from women who defy patriarchal norms, and her current tour is meant to help others do the same.

Carrie Rodriguez is a Texan, but with deep roots to Mexican pop music through her great-aunt, Eva Garza. Rodriguez pays tribute to her great-aunt and adds her own contemporary twists to classic ranchera's on her new album, "Lola."

Easter is one of the biggest holidays in Belgium. The country is the chocolate capital of the world. But this year, it feels strange to splurge on sweets.

Thousands of angry shepherds recently stormed the parliament in Bucharest, the Romanian capital. It was a protest against a measure that would regulate, get this, sheepdogs.

The Cuban song Guantanamera has been adopted by everyone from a Japanese girl group to British football fans.

Rapper Phife Dawg, a founding member of A Tribe Called Quest, has died. He was 45.

When Fidel Castro ushered in the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere, Soviet Russia fell in love with Cuba. And the romance that lasted decades.