Sowmya Krishnamurthy

Sowmya Krishnamurthy is an American music journalist and author. She has contributed to Time, Rolling Stone, XXL, Complex, Billboard, Playboy and NPR. Sowmya is the author of Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster).

Career
Krishnamurthy began her writing career at The Michigan Daily. She interned at CNN and Bad Boy Records and was in William Morris Endeavor's agent training program. In 2012, she starred on MTV's Hip-Hop POV with Charlamagne Tha God and Amanda Seales. Sowmya has appeared on MSNBC, BBC, and CNN. In 2021, she launched The Lookout by SoundCloud on SiriusXM.

She has provided expert commentary on The Breakfast Club and Ebro in the Morning. She is one of Complex 's "25 Music Insiders to Follow on Twitter" with other journalists Elliott Wilson and Charlamagne Tha God.

Literary Work
In 2023, Krishnamurthy authored Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion. The book began as a story in XXL. This is the first anthology on hip-hop fashion. Kirkus Reviews and Booklist named the book as one of the "best books of 2023".

In January 2024, she announced that her next book is about Jay-Z and hip-hop label Roc-A-Fella Records: Roc-A-Fella Records: An American Rap Dynasty.

Personal life
Krishnamurthy grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and graduated from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She is the first hip-hop journalist of Indian American descent and lives in New York City.

ELLE has called Krishnamurthy one of the women authors "redefining" the hip-hop books canon.