Craig Robinson, if given the chance, could carry the dramatic weight of a feature film. Here he delivers one lonely, well-written monologue five minutes…
It’s easy to miss lyrics in a GoldLink song, given the 22-year-old’s quick vocal pace. Listen closely though, and you’ll catch something. Hate my…
2015 has been a good year for East Bay rapper, Caleborate, and by the looks of it, 2016 will be even better. Pigeons and…
Lil Dicky ALEX WILEY Young California The Independent, San Francisco October 4, 2015 Better Than: Watching The Price is Right without Bob Barker. If…
Houston's Rabit, also known as one Eric Burton, has been quietly pushing his own breed of slightly demented club music for several years now….
Richmond-born rapper Locksmith has been cutting his teeth since the turn of the millennium. The half-black, half-Persian lyricist spent the better part of a…
Though Anthony Dragons is a pretty accomplished local rapper, he's had a hard time settling on a name for himself — which is why…
Effects sputter, a saxophone sample hovers into the atmosphere, and a smooth bass rolls into a jazzy drum loop as Queens D. Light announces…
In a YO! MTV Raps interview in 1994, a month after his debut album Illmatic was released, 20-year-old rapper Nasir “Nas” Jones told Fab…
When a transit officer killed Oscar Grant at Oakland’s Fruitvale BART station on January 1, 2009, Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira and his wife Dawn…
