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AXL FOLIE has helped shape some of the most important records of the last decade—from Kendrick Lamar’s m.A.A.d city to Jay Rock’s Grammy-winning “King’s Dead.” But his latest work isn’t about accolades—it’s about connection. His recent run with Leon Thomas on Electric Dusk and Mutt showcased his growth as a… Read more »

Rap fuels today’s marketing, streaming, and storytelling. From viral hooks to fashion lines, the genre reshapes what mainstream entertainment looks and sounds like. Read more »

Heno. and Mad Keys. Takoma Park, MD-raised emcee teams with STL-raised multi-instrumentalist producer. Together from this union was born “Healing Out Loud”, an album that’s as much of a soul search as it is an exorcism of inner demons. Not only that, but it’s in full view of all within… Read more »

For alternative hip hop, the golden age was the 2000s. Following a somewhat binary decade where rap was either gangsta and hardcore or afro-centric and jazzy, the turn of the century is when hip hop, ripe for the next step in its evolution, expanded into a beautiful fragmentation of styles… Read more »

If I said “I put my hand upon your hip,” would you respond with “When I dip, you dip, we dip?” If so then you know Freak Nasty, a rapper and producer from New Orleans who scored his one and only chart topping single with “Da’ Dip” in the late… Read more »

“I’m in a two-man cell, with my homie Lil 1/2 Dead” – Snoop Dogg These days being name checked in a song by the legendary Snoop Dogg would raise the bar of expectations so high that some rappers would shy away from it. Back in 1992 though it was a… Read more »